But the all-too-common themes of love followed by misery or even death has a pretty sad history in queer media in general. Of course, a lot of these films are great - critically acclaimed, in fact, and have made their mark on cinema. There are the secret lesbians from a time without electricity in Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) and Ammonite (2020), the coming-of-age lesbians who undergo a lot of trauma because of homophobia and heteronormativity in Pariah (2011) and Rafiki (2018), and finally, the lesbians whose love is doomed to end in Blue is the Warmest Color (2013). If you’re new to lesbian films, you might notice that many of them - or, at least, the prominent ones - tend to be pretty sad.