Victoria Lynn Weston’s quick movie, Free Lover, tells the story of probably the most achieved ladies in American History, and on the threat of burying the lead, the primary lady nominated for President of the United States.
Before her Presidential nomination, Victoria Woodhull (Christina Leidel) was the primary lady to handle Congress, the primary feminine stockbroker, and the primary lady to start out her personal publishing firm. Guiding her alongside her prophetic journey to the White House is the visage of the Greek statesman Demosthenes (Travis West), giving her the encouragement solely an historical thinker might present.
On the evening that Woodhull is to just accept the nomination for President of the United States, she is confronted by the group on her platform of “free love.” Woodhull takes the Libertarian standpoint that freedom for all Americans additionally applies within the bed room. As half the group begins to activate her, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher (Beau Blanchard) decries her pal, saying that free love is an assault on conventional marriage.
“Woodhull takes the Libertarian standpoint that freedom for all Americans additionally applies within the bed room.”
Thus begins Victoria Woodhull’s presidential marketing campaign, the place she should defend her views on freedom and marriage whereas following the directions of her philosophical and probably religious chief, Demosthenes. Slowly dropping help and votes, Woodhull considers calling out her political opponents for his or her affairs and their hypocrisy.
I’ll be trustworthy. Free Lover is an odd little biography of an unconventional Presidential marketing campaign, and it’s all true. The drawback appeared much less about Woodhull being a lady and unable to legally vote…for herself. But it’s the truth that she stood on a platform she believed in and a marketing campaign derailed by a single subject.
Free Lover is way more about bringing consciousness to this little identified determine, whom in all probability only a few individuals learn about past feminist circles. It’s a glimpse into how the political sausage is made and the way ruthless we turn out to be in pursuing energy.
It’s a really low-budget manufacturing with costumes that match the interval and sufficient props to make the units really feel like we’re within the correct period. The staging, although, seems like a stage play together with the performing. Ultimately, the story wins out over manufacturing values in Free Lover.
For screening info, go to the Free Lover official web site.
