Medieval tragic lesbian combat adventure is a bit of a slog

Dia Lacina reviews 1348 Ex Voto, a spectacular but brief historical adventure with lots of combat and even more walking. Though it features two women in homoerotic opposition and is set during the Black Death and the Hundred Years War, it somehow whiffs both the history and the sexual tension: "What first piqued my interest in Ex Voto was its promise of an interest in medieval romances, the calamitous and complex history of 14th-century Italy, and tragic lesbians. — Read the rest

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