Desc: MURDER and murder: Directed by Yvonne Rainer. With Joanna Merlin, Kathleen Chalfant, Catherine Kellner, Isa Thomas. Mildred and Doris are two middle-aged white women, from very different backgrounds, who become lovers and set up house together. Film explores the pleasures and uncertainties of later-life emotional attachment and lesbian identity in a culture that glorifies youth and heterosexual romance.