Road warrior: Italian actress Regina Orioli says Gasoline delivers the lesbian content that Thelma & Louise just hinted. (film). From: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbiannewsmagazine) | Date: June 24, 2003| Author: Rowe, Michael | COPYRIGHT 2003 Liberation Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

"It's not a movie about lesbianism; it's a love story with lesbianism as an ensemble characteristic," says actress Regina Orioli, sipping her cappuccino in the bar of Toronto's Sutton Place Hotel. Her English is delicately flavored with the accent and intonation of a resident of Rome. A guest of the Toronto International Film Festival, Orioli is discussing filmmaker Monica Stambrini's Gasoline (Benzina), in which she costars.

Gasoline tells the story of two gas station-o...