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Ellen Hardy walks through the narrow streets of a small industrial mill town in post WWII England each afternoon to collect her son Victor from school. Accompanied by an ear-shattering cacophony of steam engines and machinery, the sojourns brightens her grim existence as the wife of a mill worker Geoff. The main attraction of Ellen at Victor's school is not her son's budding art talents, but his art teacher Kathy. As the friendship between the two deepens, Ellen's marriage takes a back seat. After a terrible summer vacation choices are made about the relationship that change the lives of all four people forever.

Set against a bleak industrial landscape, this austerely beautiful film is one of the best films about love between women. Between Two Women is a compellingly film evocative of a time, place and attitude both not-so-distant and worlds away.

 -- Victoria Brownworth