crussell444 This was the most genuine portrayal of lesbian love and passion that I ever recall viewing. Fear of same sex relationships remains a problem of early socialization in our society to this day. In spite of celebrated people "coming out", gay marriage and famous transsexuals,internalized and externalized homophobia remains to a great extent in America. This is a realistic story of two straight women, one woman overcoming her fears and another falling in love with a woman after the loss of her male fiancé, falling in love. The timing of the development of their relationship is absolutely genuine. There is a fair amount of sex in this movie, but there is also a demonstration of gentle caring, affection, compassion and love. While their relationship starts as a business transaction over time it begins to subtly change and build into a real loving relationship. The characters are two women, but could easily have been two men or a man and a woman. What it did for me was convincingly illustrate how a lesbian relationship is not different from any other loving relationship. It was refreshing to see two women in love depicted as being in love instead of "in lust". This is something that seems not to be portrayed as clearly in other LGBT films. The ending was not a surprise until the daughter showed up at the art gallery. The interaction between her and her mother's lover was the icing on the cake. The only thing that I found a little distressing was that the sons did not seem appropriately saddened by the loss of their mother. This is a great film that I would recommend wholeheartedly to anyone not looking for an action flick.

Sharlie Mello I love movies with great chemistry between excellent actors, excellent writing and directing with music that enhances the movie and its moods. A few of my favorites are Out of Africa, Prince of Tides and Somewhere in Time. Now I can add A Perfect Ending to my list. Nicole Conn and her team bring it all together in this amazing movie. I just watched A Perfect Ending for the third time in about as many weeks and I was just like.... Wow! I cannot believe the exquisite body of work that Barbara Niven put together in that wonderful movie. From start to finish it was just total quality. Barbara aced the part of Rebecca and she was truly meant for that part. It rather seemed as though it was written for her. The vulnerability she portrayed was so real and believable. Barbara is a talented and beautiful lady. As a relative newcomer, Jessica Clark was exquisite and mysterious and yet their characters blended well and had great and unusual chemistry. A Perfect Ending was multi-layered and intriguing and I will likely watch it many times in the future.

Ana Paula Brás Nicole Conn gave us again a masterpiece!!! It's a movie which addresses many facets such as: the prejudice, love between women, the male abuse in marriage, children's distinction between boy and girl, the age differences and sex work. "A Perfect Ending" is above all, a hymn to Love and Nicole found the perfect actresses for the main roles. The chemistry between Barbara Niven and Jessica Clark is outstanding! Rebecca is Barbara's role lifetime, with an absolutely amazing courage! Jessica surprised everyone in her first feature film, really talented actress! The soundtrack, especially the music The Perfect Pavane by Kathy Fowler, is superb! Thank you Nicole for this gift to the world! We are looking forward for your next creations!

suite92 Rebecca is in a marriage where she has never had a climax, and she and her husband Mason have sex twice a year, whether they want to or not. Mason is a bit of a shifty dealer, and he signs over certain company segments to Rebecca to avoid litigation and perhaps criminal charges. He's very controlling with her and keeps her in the dark as much as possible.Theme 1: Rebecca's lesbian friends try to get her to enjoy herself more with another woman, perhaps through Valentina, who runs a service for that. This starts slowly with Paris, since Rebecca is skittish about it, but picks up speed later.Theme 2: Rebecca decides to use Mason's overconfidence to take control of most of his companies. The documents he urged her to sign earlier are a great help in this. Further into the film, we find out that Rebecca has terminal cancer. She will have a lot of decisions to make.Theme 3.: Rebecca's first lesbian lover, Paris, is going through emotional turmoil herself over the loss of a loved one. Some time ago, she had a minor laughing spat with her husband. She playfully pushed him away, into the path of a car that killed him.Theme 4: Rebecca's daughter from a first marriage feels left out, plus Mason abused her sexually a few years back. One Mason and Rebecca's two sons is to be married into even more money, but his prospective wife is a bit of an odd duck.Will Rebecca and Mason handle the full transfer of power before she is gone? Will Rebecca figure out her sexual identity? Will Paris get over the exact way that her husband died? Will the next generation get their acts together? -------Scores--------Cinematography: 7/10 There were too many closeups of mundane objects coupled with rack focus. The shots of Paris emoting were atmospheric, but more often boring than not. The regular footage was very well done.Sound: 8/10 Mostly OK, but dips too low sometimes.Acting: 5/10 Lots of variation: John Heard was quite convincing; Barbara Niven almost convincing; the actors who play the grown up children were rather bad, as were the actors who played the lesbian friends.Screenplay: 5/10 The story lines made sense eventually, but the whole thing was rather ponderous. Oh, well, soap opera traditions.