RAVE REVIEWS: A crazed drag-king pirate movie set on the shores of some tropicalized Vancouver, it's jazzed and horny ... hilarious (Cameron Bailey in Now Toronto magazine). Guaranteed to become a classic. It is the kind of film that most imaginative dykes would make if they had enough talent. Witty and creative, GIRL KING is the ideal queer-date movie. I give it five stars out of five (Jean Robert in www.technodyke.com).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). Full of sexy scenes, witty dialogue, and beautiful imagery. All of which paint a picture of lesbian sexuality that is at once intimate and surreal. (Adrienne Baker in Velvetpark Magazine). GIRL KING's playful narrative, butch/femme erotica, and seductive aesthetics make for a wild cinematic odyssey on the high seas (www.outtakes.net). 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) Cleverly utilizing stock footage, pornographic imagery and bedazzling sets that recall the films of both Kenneth Anger and Alain Robbe-Grillet ... Pietrobruno weaves a creative high-seas dyke drama that charms and entertains while providing a good dose of eroticism (Kier-La Janisse in Terminal City Magazine) 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). What made the film pleasurable was its ironic and parodic play with butch-femme genres ... wittily playing with stereotypes ...The film makes innovative use of old film footage, drawing attention to the fantastic and fantasy elements of the story, evoking an ironic portrayal of the performativity of gender and the masquerade of simulation and dissimulation (Alexandra Winter in MC Reviews). The crowd was full of drag kings, femmes, gay bio-boys, MTFs and FTMs and more, more, more! GIRL KING, has all the elements, identities, and enough queer erotic sizzle to knock this butch femme-loving drag king off his feet! Seriously, folks ... if this film comes your way ... GO SEE IT! Remember, though, to bring a date! (Will Dewar in Cock Tales). Part lesbian sexcapade, part swashbuckling adventure and part romantic love story, GIRL KING is a completely original drag king pirate film. A proud, audacious flaunt of butch sexuality (www.her-movies.com) A millennium bodice ripper (Anne Vitale in Notes on Gender) An independent film in every sense of the term, GIRL KING is a raucous feast of sight and sound that gleefully entertains even as it challenges, with a wink of an eye, our notions of gender roles and sexual identity (Ramon Diaz in the Boulder Gay and Lesbian Catalogue). A parody on butch/femme dynamics that had everyone in the theatre laughing out loud (D. Cameron in Drake's Event Guide for Leather Women). Below the exterior of a sexy, playful adventure lies an intelligent critique of gender identity and sexual role-play. This visual orgy of erotically charged butch-femme seduction is sure to find a place in Canadian independent film history (Sabrina Alonso in Frameline Queer guide). Intelligent, ambitious, and imaginative (in Arts News Magazine). Passionately crafted and skillfully lensed, GIRL KING is both a romantic and sexy high-seas escapade and a clever exploration of sexuality, gender, and butch/femme roleplay. Playful humor and highly-charged erotics frolic together on screen in this innovative feature unlike anything that has come before it (Image Out Rochester Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Catalogue). Packing a tickle trunk of laughs, wit and cahones, this low-low-budget epic inhabits a large, surreal stage. And the very sexy cast manages the campy dialogue with panache. Even Judy Garland fans will like this flick (Gordon Bowness in Xtra! Toronto Magazine). Pure girlcamp (Jim Fourat in Gay City News) Subversion is job No. 1. The outlandishness culminates in the eternal question: Can a butch and a femme be friends without the identity politics getting in the way? (Wesley Morris in The Boston Globe) The overall message being don't be too particular about who you fuck or don't fuck. Enjoy (Hendrike Baker in Film Ireland). I love it (Wieland Speck, Berlinale programmer in Screen Int'l Magazine).