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Tamara de Szegheo Lang, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Film and Media, Queen's University, Ontario

‘Better Than Chocolate’ highlights lost 90s decade of lesbian Canadian cinema

“If coming out of the closet was really as much fun as it is for the sexually adventurous youths in Better Than Chocolate, then everybody would be doing it, even straight people.”

So wrote film critic Bruce Kirkland in his 1999 review of the lesbian romantic comedy by Canadian filmmaker Anne Wheeler.

film poster showing a woman's naked back who is being embraced by another woman
‘Better Than Chocolate’ was released in 1999. (Wikipedia/Trimark Pictures/IMBD)
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