Product Description From Nicole Conn, director of the lesbian classic Claire of the Moon. Elegant and refined Elena (Necar Zadegan, TV's 24, the Event) is a devoted wife to her pastor husband, mother to her teenage son, and daughter to her traditional Indian family. When she meets lesbian writer Peyton (ravishingly beautiful Traci Dinwiddie, TV's Supernatural) Elena is confronted with intense, unexpected feelings for a woman and their relationship evolves into a passionate romance. Charming, funny and poignant as well as smoldering and sensual! Review Unabashedly focused on hot romance. Variety Zadegan and Dinwiddie are electric together! The Philadelphia Inquirer Fantastic, nuanced performances. . . [Zadegan s and Dinwiddie s] scenes together sparkle and shine with chemistry and life . . . fantastic and enormously compelling! AfterEllen.com --Wolfe
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About the Actor Necar Zadegan was born in Germany and currently resides in Los Angeles where she splits her time between television, film and stage work. Her latest film,"Unthinkable," sees her starring alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Micheal Sheen and will be released in 2010. Other film work includes Adam Sandler's "You Don't Mess With The Zohan" as well as award-winning indie festival film "The Touch".Necar is most recently working as a recurring role on the hit FOX television series 24 as first lady, Dalia Hassan. Other television work includes "Nip/Tuck," "The Unit," "NCIS," "How I Met Your Mother and "Lost" among others. Necar attended UCSB on a performance scholarship and graduated with degrees in literature and writing. She then toured through three continents with Workshop 79 in the Farsi language show "From Satellite With Love and was also part of the LA Weekly Award nominated cast of the Boston Court production of Gilgamesh. She recently closed her one--woman show at the Powerhouse Theater in Santa Monica and will return to the stage this spring in the much celebrated LA premiere of the Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo at the Mark Taper Forum directed by Moises Kaufman. About the Director Nicole Conn - Writer/DirectorNicole Conn has been a die-hard romantic and black and white film fan from the age of ten. Conn has written five novels, a teleplay, eight screenplays, and has produced two soundtracks. Her last venture before Elena Undone, was little man, a documentary she wrote, directed and produced about her own premature son born 100 days early and only weighing one pound. The feature documentary went on to win 12 Best Documentary Awards, along with the prestigious Cedar Sinai's Courageous Beginnings Award and Family Pride's Family Tree Award. The film made three TOP TEN FILMS OF 2005. Showtime picked up little man and ran an Emmy campaign on this hard-hitting story about Nicholas' premature birth and subsequent 5-month hospital stay in a Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit. Conn's passion for film carried her through her first feature where she single-handedly raised the money, wrote, directed and produced Claire of the Moon, the maverick film about a woman's journey to her sexual identity. The film garnered rave reviews and paved the way for lesbian themed cinema in 1991. Conn also created an historic FIRST for lesbian cinema: ancillary in the form of a novelization (in its 15th reprint and 10 Year Anniversary Republish), a making-of documentary, MOMENTS (best-selling lesbian documentary ever made), soundtracks, posters, t-shirts, etc. She followed these projects with the award winning short film, Cynara...Poetry in Motion. See more
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The best lesbian-loves-straight woman movie EVER!
I'm a 68 year old white heterosexual male...who happens to LOVE relationship movies, and LESBIAN relationship movies in particular....and lesbian-meeting-and-loving-straight-woman-relationship movies even more!!Those predilections taken into account, "Elena Undone" is the absolute BEST of that "genre"!!Before I saw "Elena", I'd watched "Room in Rome", and THAT movie became my #1 in the above genre.(Previously, my favorite "lesbian" movie was "Everything Relative", but that movie is sorta like "The Big Chill" of lesbian movies. Great flick, but NOT in the "lez loves straight" category!!)So, why is "Elena Undone" so fabulous??I'll begin with the story.It's believable!A married (15 years) woman with a teen son meets a lesbian at an adoption center. Elena (a sensational Necar Zadegan) and her Pastor husband have tried, but failed to conceive a 2nd child. Peyton (an also-sensational Traci Dinwiddie) is a woman whose mother just died, whose last relationship ended, but who wants to have a child.It's an instant attraction!!For both of them!!For Peyton, it's easy.....she's met another woman she's very attracted to.For Elena.....not so easy!!She's NEVER been attracted to a woman, hasn't even kissed a woman...ever!The story follows their blossoming relationship, from first chats to a photo shoot (for Peyton's book cover...Elena is a GREAT photog!!) to deeper and deeper involvement....to their first long kiss (advertised as the "longest kiss in cinema history"!!)...to sex.But this is one story where the sex ACT isn't the be all-end all of the movie.Nonetheless, it's beautifully done, erotic, sensual, poetic.I won't reveal what happens later.....You'll have to see the movie for that!....but problems DO arise, and how they deal with those problems makes the ending a real HUGE tearjerking few minutes!!Yes, me, a 68 year old male, cried WET tears (not just a damp tear drifting down my cheek, but SOB-like crying!!) in the last 10 minutes of the film!!The actresses.In one word, PERFECT!!If you can think of any "name" actresses who could have done a better job, please let me know!!They are beautiful, and display their emotions right up FRONT!!You really believe these women ARE falling in love, and ARE lusting after the other!!The dialogueAs a writer for 47 years (and counting!), I MUST have GREAT dialogue to make me enjoy a movie (or TV show or book).And "Elena Undone" has all that!!I don't know if any of it was improvised (the dialogue, I mean), but it easily COULD have been!!Because the words these women speak are words YOU have spoken in YOUR serious relationships...and words I've spoken in mine!!Again, in one word, PERFECT!!Then there's the "extras".Meaning the other characters.Elena's best friend is a married male motivational speaker who's doing a documentary on "twin flames", people meeting their true soulmates. (They're platonic friends!!)Peyton's best friend is another lesbian she's known since high school. She's a wise-cracking Brit (Her accent sounds British!!) who is always THERE for Peyton!!Also, interspersed throughout are "real" (??) couples who tell the audience (or Elena's friend's camera!!) how they met and fell in love. Reminded me a LOT of similar scenes from "When Harry Met Sally"!!Then there's Elena's husband, who plays it kind of straightforward.And their son, Nash, who has a key role in the movie.Lastly, there's Nash's girlfriend, Tori, who is INCREDIBLE!!Wait till you see and hear HER!!!All told, if there's a "better" lesbian-loves-straight movie, with all the necessary elements--emotions, lust, love, sex, believability--please tell me its name!!For lesbians and straights alike (both female AND male variety!), "Elena Undone" is a MUST SEE movie!!
H**G
One of the Best Lesbian Romances
This classy, well made, poignant, sensual lesbian drama features commendable performances by drop dead gorgeous Traci Dinwiddie, playing the part of Peyton, and Necar Zadegan, playing the part of Elena, in what constitutes a well directed romance, based on an amalgamation of true stories, by acclaimed director, Nicole Con (probably one of her best efforts to date), that incorporates a brilliant soundtrack and an engrossing screenplay that revolves around the story of Elena, an Indian married to a conservative right wing preacher opposed to lesbian marriages, to whom she has never felt any real love and whom their son and his girlfriend finds overbearing, discovering herself unaccountably attracted to Peyton, whom she met during Peyton's attempt to adopt a child, after she embarks to photograph Peyton in a session where she discovers herself experiencing unaccountable feelings of tenderness for Peyton and under the encouragement of a liberal preacher who gave innumerable sermons encouraging his parishioners to search for their true soul mate regardless of gender as the discovery of true love is so confoundingly difficult and true love so ephemereal, gradually finding herself unable to control her feelings for Peyton and discreetly engaging in passionate sexual relations with her and falling in love despite her strict religious upbringing and what she has been brought up to belief, dealing with her inabilty to confess her love for Peyton to her husband and leaving Peyton to go on a vacation with her husband in Hawaii, where she receives countless love letters from Peyton, and promises to take time off for a sexual triste but failing to do so on countless occasions, until one occasion where she manages to escape her husband to meet with Peyton, during which time they engage in passionate sex, after which she engages in a serious conversation with Peyton, during which time Peyton decides she cannot continue with the relationship due to Elena's unwillingness to leave her husband, leaving Elena crushed, but resolving to confess her feelings to her husband, and hence achieve self actualization as a photographer and a woman, and being forced confess her feelings to her son, after he discoveres Peyton's love letters to Elena and confronts his mother, only to encounter Peyton in a park, with Peyton finding herself unable to resist Elena and kissing her in public, where her husband's closest friend in Christ witnesses them kissing and take several shots with her camera phone and shows them to Elena's husband, prompting a confrontation between Elena and her husband that culminates in Elena leaving her husband, only to discover Peyton rejecting her when she discovers Elena pregnant and mistakenly reaches the conclusion that she was unfaithful to her and had engaged in intercourse with her husband when they were apart, until Elena falls ill and her son requests Peyton's presence at her hospital bed, to which she reluctantly agrees, during which time Elena declares her true love for Peyton and explains that their liberal preacher had engage in sexual intercourse with her to reward them with the child that they had so ardently desired, and the two resolve to take each other's hand in marriage in a movie that heavily criticizes the teachings of Christianity and unreasonable dogma of this ridiculous religion.Highly recommended.
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Necar Zadegan was born in Germany and currently resides in Los Angeles where she splits her time between television, film and stage work. Her latest film,\"Unthinkable,\" sees her starring alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Micheal Sheen and will be released in 2010. Other film work includes Adam Sandler's \"You Don't Mess With The Zohan\" as well as award-winning indie festival film \"The Touch\".
Necar is most recently working as a recurring role on the hit FOX television series 24 as first lady, Dalia Hassan. Other television work includes \"Nip/Tuck,\" \"The Unit,\" \"NCIS,\" \"How I Met Your Mother and \"Lost\" among others. Necar attended UCSB on a performance scholarship and graduated with degrees in literature and writing. She then toured through three continents with Workshop 79 in the Farsi language show \"From Satellite With Love and was also part of the LA Weekly Award nominated cast of the Boston Court production of Gilgamesh.
She recently closed her one--woman show at the Powerhouse Theater in Santa Monica and will return to the stage this spring in the much celebrated LA premiere of the Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo at the Mark Taper Forum directed by Moises Kaufman.
About the Director
Nicole Conn - Writer/Director Nicole Conn has been a die-hard romantic and black and white film fan from the age of ten.
Conn has written five novels, a teleplay, eight screenplays, and has produced two soundtracks. Her last venture before Elena Undone, was little man, a documentary she wrote, directed and produced about her own premature son born 100 days early and only weighing one pound. The feature documentary went on to win 12 Best Documentary Awards, along with the prestigious Cedar Sinai's Courageous Beginnings Award and Family Pride's Family Tree Award. The film made three TOP TEN FILMS OF 2005. Showtime picked up little man and ran an Emmy campaign on this hard-hitting story about Nicholas' premature birth and subsequent 5-month hospital stay in a Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit.
Conn's passion for film carried her through her first feature where she single-handedly raised the money, wrote, directed and produced Claire of the Moon, the maverick film about a woman's journey to her sexual identity. The film garnered rave reviews and paved the way for lesbian themed cinema in 1991. Conn also created an historic FIRST for lesbian cinema: ancillary in the form of a novelization (in its 15th reprint and 10 Year Anniversary Republish), a making-of documentary, MOMENTS (best-selling lesbian documentary ever made), soundtracks, posters, t-shirts, etc. She followed these projects with the award winning short film, Cynara...Poetry in Motion.
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Great flick, but NOT in the \"lez loves straight\" category!!)So, why is \"Elena Undone\" so fabulous??I'll begin with the story.It's believable!A married (15 years) woman with a teen son meets a lesbian at an adoption center. Elena (a sensational Necar Zadegan) and her Pastor husband have tried, but failed to conceive a 2nd child. Peyton (an also-sensational Traci Dinwiddie) is a woman whose mother just died, whose last relationship ended, but who wants to have a child.It's an instant attraction!!For both of them!!For Peyton, it's easy.....she's met another woman she's very attracted to.For Elena.....not so easy!!She's NEVER been attracted to a woman, hasn't even kissed a woman...ever!The story follows their blossoming relationship, from first chats to a photo shoot (for Peyton's book cover...Elena is a GREAT photog!!) to deeper and deeper involvement....to their first long kiss (advertised as the \"longest kiss in cinema history\"!!)...to sex.But this is one story where the sex ACT isn't the be all-end all of the movie.Nonetheless, it's beautifully done, erotic, sensual, poetic.I won't reveal what happens later.....You'll have to see the movie for that!....but problems DO arise, and how they deal with those problems makes the ending a real HUGE tearjerking few minutes!!Yes, me, a 68 year old male, cried WET tears (not just a damp tear drifting down my cheek, but SOB-like crying!!) in the last 10 minutes of the film!!The actresses.In one word, PERFECT!!If you can think of any \"name\" actresses who could have done a better job, please let me know!!They are beautiful, and display their emotions right up FRONT!!You really believe these women ARE falling in love, and ARE lusting after the other!!The dialogueAs a writer for 47 years (and counting!), I MUST have GREAT dialogue to make me enjoy a movie (or TV show or book).And \"Elena Undone\" has all that!!I don't know if any of it was improvised (the dialogue, I mean), but it easily COULD have been!!Because the words these women speak are words YOU have spoken in YOUR serious relationships...and words I've spoken in mine!!Again, in one word, PERFECT!!Then there's the \"extras\".Meaning the other characters.Elena's best friend is a married male motivational speaker who's doing a documentary on \"twin flames\", people meeting their true soulmates. (They're platonic friends!!)Peyton's best friend is another lesbian she's known since high school. She's a wise-cracking Brit (Her accent sounds British!!) who is always THERE for Peyton!!Also, interspersed throughout are \"real\" (??) couples who tell the audience (or Elena's friend's camera!!) how they met and fell in love. Reminded me a LOT of similar scenes from \"When Harry Met Sally\"!!Then there's Elena's husband, who plays it kind of straightforward.And their son, Nash, who has a key role in the movie.Lastly, there's Nash's girlfriend, Tori, who is INCREDIBLE!!Wait till you see and hear HER!!!All told, if there's a \"better\" lesbian-loves-straight movie, with all the necessary elements--emotions, lust, love, sex, believability--please tell me its name!!For lesbians and straights alike (both female AND male variety!), \"Elena Undone\" is a MUST SEE movie!!"},{"@type":"Review","reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":"5.0"},"author":{"@type":"Person","name":"H***G"},"datePublished":"October 23, 2014","name":"One of the Best Lesbian Romances","reviewBody":"This classy, well made, poignant, sensual lesbian drama features commendable performances by drop dead gorgeous Traci Dinwiddie, playing the part of Peyton, and Necar Zadegan, playing the part of Elena, in what constitutes a well directed romance, based on an amalgamation of true stories, by acclaimed director, Nicole Con (probably one of her best efforts to date), that incorporates a brilliant soundtrack and an engrossing screenplay that revolves around the story of Elena, an Indian married to a conservative right wing preacher opposed to lesbian marriages, to whom she has never felt any real love and whom their son and his girlfriend finds overbearing, discovering herself unaccountably attracted to Peyton, whom she met during Peyton's attempt to adopt a child, after she embarks to photograph Peyton in a session where she discovers herself experiencing unaccountable feelings of tenderness for Peyton and under the encouragement of a liberal preacher who gave innumerable sermons encouraging his parishioners to search for their true soul mate regardless of gender as the discovery of true love is so confoundingly difficult and true love so ephemereal, gradually finding herself unable to control her feelings for Peyton and discreetly engaging in passionate sexual relations with her and falling in love despite her strict religious upbringing and what she has been brought up to belief, dealing with her inabilty to confess her love for Peyton to her husband and leaving Peyton to go on a vacation with her husband in Hawaii, where she receives countless love letters from Peyton, and promises to take time off for a sexual triste but failing to do so on countless occasions, until one occasion where she manages to escape her husband to meet with Peyton, during which time they engage in passionate sex, after which she engages in a serious conversation with Peyton, during which time Peyton decides she cannot continue with the relationship due to Elena's unwillingness to leave her husband, leaving Elena crushed, but resolving to confess her feelings to her husband, and hence achieve self actualization as a photographer and a woman, and being forced confess her feelings to her son, after he discoveres Peyton's love letters to Elena and confronts his mother, only to encounter Peyton in a park, with Peyton finding herself unable to resist Elena and kissing her in public, where her husband's closest friend in Christ witnesses them kissing and take several shots with her camera phone and shows them to Elena's husband, prompting a confrontation between Elena and her husband that culminates in Elena leaving her husband, only to discover Peyton rejecting her when she discovers Elena pregnant and mistakenly reaches the conclusion that she was unfaithful to her and had engaged in intercourse with her husband when they were apart, until Elena falls ill and her son requests Peyton's presence at her hospital bed, to which she reluctantly agrees, during which time Elena declares her true love for Peyton and explains that their liberal preacher had engage in sexual intercourse with her to reward them with the child that they had so ardently desired, and the two resolve to take each other's hand in marriage in a movie that heavily criticizes the teachings of Christianity and unreasonable dogma of this ridiculous religion.Highly recommended."}],"aggregateRating":{"@type":"AggregateRating","ratingValue":5,"bestRating":5,"ratingCount":2}}
