Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFilmmaker David Au’s debut feature film about an unhappy Chinese-American mother and her strained relationship with equally miserable son is as melodramatic as if it were an Asian type novella. Emma the mother sticks with her boring husband who completely neglects her until he wakes up in the middle of the night and insists on cutting his … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIn Luis Ortega’ s dramatized intriguing take on the Argentinian real-life convicted murderer, rapist, kidnapper and thief Carlos Robledo Puch he uses all the unwarranted violence to glorify the teenage killer. In the movie Carlitos, (Lorenzo Ferro) as he is called, is a baby-faced curly-haired pretty high school-student who has already become something of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesEl Principe aka The Prince, the directing debut of filmmaker Sebastián Muñoz is one of most homoerotic prison movies we have seen for some time, and it bears the influences of other queer movies of that genre. The main difference of this tale set in Allende’s Chile in the 1970s is that young Jaime … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesQueer US film distributor ALTERED INNOCENCE was founded in 2015 and is dedicated to releasing LGBTQ & Coming-of-Age films with an artistic edge. With increasing censorship brought about by powerfully biased homophobic Social Media, there are less opportunities for alternative filmmakers to get their art in front of the audiences they so deserve. One … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesErik and Erika is the dramatization of the extraordinary life story of Austrian World Skiing Champion Erika Schinegger who relinquished her title when she finally became Erik. Born in 1948 to a farmer’s wife, as the baby had no physical signs of any genitalia, the midwife declared that she was a girl, and the family … Continue reading