17 Rooms (or What Do Lesbians Do in Bed?)
What do lesbians do in bed? – what indeed... with a star-studded soundtrack, we're shown women doing everything in bed from blowing noses, knitting and drinking tea, to having raucous pillow-fights and intense conversations – making us realise how seldom women are visually portrayed in their beds apart from when they are having sexual interaction with men. In these 17 rooms, everything is shown... everything that is, except 'doing it' – the final ironic comment. Ending with a kiss, the film suggests an opening for '17 Rooms: Part II (the unadulterated version)'!
– Lucy O'Brian
‘17 Rooms’ doesn't entirely satisfy the curiosity of male voyeurs but it does make the viewer examine visual representations of women, sexual terminology, so-called erotic fiction and semiotics on the way.
Description source: Circles catalogue (1987). Compiled and edited by Jenny Holland and Jane Harris.
