With a fistful of fetish in every frame, Girl King delivers a sexy, gender-bending swashbuckler on the high seas. Pirates capture a naïve Butch and promise him that if he can find the Queen’s stolen treasure, they will be give him his heart’s desire –

the seductive femme Claudia. Soon Butch is sailing on treacherous seas, swept away by dangerous desires where tops are bottomed, pirate captains are seduced by tranny sailors, and cross-dressing femmes pack a wallop. With the help of the

mysterious Easy and the infamous pirate Captain Candy, can Butch find the treasure in time to restore the natural attraction between butch and femme or will the treasure and the natural order be forever lost? Decidedly tongue-in-cheek, this clever tale uses a stylish pastiche of ‘pirated’ images to lead us into the uncharted oceans of dyke desire and queer identity.

 

With an amazing soundtrack by Amon Tobin.

 

 

Funny, hot, full of cult potential. In spite of Girl King being put squarely in the queer genre by its director, it is free from intellectual clichés and unimaginative theoretical correctness.

– Charlotte Sjöholm (in Film International Magazine)

 

 

Girl King is a film about girls who look like boys who like girls who like boys, uh yeah, you figure it out. Actually this is a very cute film about breaking down butch/femme stereotypes. So what does it really mean to be butch? femme? Check this film out and learn a thing or

three.

– Brownie A La Mode (in www.dykediva.com)

 

 

 

Post-queer and post-feminist (and post just about everything else), it manages to tackle the complicated terrain of gender with insight and humour.

– Rachel Giese (in Xtra! West Magazine)