Screenings of this delightful coming-of-age, coming-out film by British director Beeban Kidron (Antonia and Jane), made as a three-part series for the BBC, have largely been limited to the festival circuit. Adapted by Jeanette Winterson from her autobiographical novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is set in northern England in the 1960s within a small, almost entirely female, Pentecostal community. Jess (superbly played by Emily Aston and as an adolescent by Charlotte Coleman) accompanies her zealous mother-("Smile everyone, and think of the Second Coming!")-in her determined rooting out of sin. Within this tight-laced, prim community (strikingly rendered in controlled, symmetrical compositions), demons lurk everywhere. They are readily recognized within Jess when she falls in love with the "wrong people": another young girl who has joined their community. Her brutal exorcism at the hands of a hell-and- brimstone preacher includes a beating and public humiliation. Ultimately, both Jess and her mother are portrayed as outsiders. Through their relationship, flesh and spirit find an uneasy co-existence in this insightful, loving tribute to the love that "dare not speak its name." --Kathy Geritz