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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews PINK LADY a low key queer drama that’s a compelling depiction of a religious woman’s sexual awakening.
Bati and Lazer are a happily married Hasidic couple living a simple domestic life in Jerusalem. Bati’s world falls apart when she opens an unaddressed envelope containing a blackmail note and candid photographs of Lazer kissing a man. Lazer claims that the pictures have been photoshopped, but Bati is not convinced, because although having three…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews MY FATHER’S DAUGHTER the feature film debut of Norwegian filmmaker Egil Pedersen.
Being fourteen or fifteen years old is never easy, and feisty indigenous Norwegian Sami teen Elvira (Sarah Olaussen Eira) is no exception. Bored in her small village, Unjarga in the far north of Norway, she fantasises that the father she has never known is Game of Thrones film star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. The Danish heartthrob (he…
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The future of Queer TV is UNCONVENTIONAL : and we are loving it
The downside of having a successful queer TV series is then the powers that be (which we guess are mainly straight) want to stick with the same formula going forward. Take, for example, Mid-Century Modern which is cute funny, gay, but oh so dated. Created by Max Mutchnick and David Kohan , who gave us Will…
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews THE PRESIDENTS WIFE starring the legendary Catherine Deneuve
The President’s Wife, directed by Léa Domenach, co-written by Clémence Dargent and starring movie legend, Catherine Deneuve in its title rôle, is a gentle feminist satire, which pokes fun at the straight white men running France in the 1990s and celebrates Bernadette Chirac who wielded the real electoral power in her marriage to husband Jacques.…