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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews SALON DE BELLEZA (Salon de beauté) @Venice international Film Festival
A film where the evocative beauty of some images contrasts sharply with the filth and hopelessness of the whole. Bubbles take us along the way on a journey into a deep sea: different kinds of seaweeds, coral spots, rocks, sea creatures, fish; all seem to dance gracefully and treat the eye with beautiful colors in…
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Lee Campbell with NEW FILTH ….. and much more
In all the years of QG’s existence, there is one thing we can be sure of. That is, simply, we have NO IDEA what artist, poet, filmmaker and founder of POW! Play on Words LEE CAMPBELL will be up to next. He does have a ‘sensible’ day job as the Senior Lecturer at University…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews LOVERS IN THE BLUE NIGHT @ Venice International Film Festival
Water, both calm and tormenting, runs parallel to the protagonist of this story, which unfolds on the fringes of Mumbai, where the four migrants come together. At the beginning, a gray river, stormy skies, the wind, and human voices provide the atmosphere. Right after, we meet introspective Karim, who rides a bike and makes and…
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Queerguru’s Peter Herbert reveiws SCORCH MARKS a new queer sci-fi / horror film screening on DEKKOO
The most interesting way to view Brendan Haley’s gay film Scorch Marks is as a reimagining of End Game, the celebrated tragi-comic absurdist one-act play written by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett in 1957, rather than through traditional tropes of mainstream sci-fi horror. The film opens with a house on a hilltop overlooking a coastal bay…
