If Him Indoors, or the Current Love of Your Life, wants to spend a quiet romantic evening with you alone at home, then here are some suggestions to help him/you get in the movie. We have chosen 5 of our favorite LGBT romantic movies that were released last year and are all available to watch on global streaming platforms. If you would like to check out our full review, then just click on the movie title. And if you want to see even more (and who doesn’t) be sure to sign up at www.queerguru.com for the most comprehensive collection of rants and raves on LGBTQ movies that you will find anywhere.
Happy Valentines Day.
Being 17 : Veteran French filmmaker André Téchiné may be the wrong side of 70 now but he shows in his latest movie that he still has a very firm grasp of the sensibilities of teenage boys coming of age. This is the story of two strikingly different high-school boys living in the French Pyrenees. Damien (Kacey Mottet Klein) is a pale effete boy who sports a diamond stud earring and excels at his academic work and cooking and self-defense. Tom (Corentin Fila) is a a biracial boy living with his adopted parents in a remote mountain farm that entails a 90 minute journey by foot and bus to get to school every day. He is determined to train to be a veterinarian when he graduates, but his school grades are so poor that he may have to abort that ambition. It seems that the only thing that these two total opposites have in common, is that they are both unpopular with their classmates and are always the very last two to be picked to play basketball.
Theo & Hugo aka Paris 5:59 It is somewhat of a totally unexpected revelation when the explicit sex that lasts a full 20 minutes at the start of this extraordinarily wonderful new French queer movie and then surprisingly turns into this rather tender and delightful tale of love-at-first-sight between these two cute young guys.
The Falls : Covenant of Grace: During the first two movies in this trilogy, writer/director Jon Garcia ensured that we really connected to the two young gay Mormon missionaries who were the protagonists, so that we became completely invested in the outcome of their on/off relationship. Now with Covenant of Grace, the third and last part of their story, we will discover if they will finally live happily ever after. You will not want to miss this one.
Esteros : In this very cute coming-of-age movie two childhood best friends Mati (Joaquin Parada) and Jero (Blas Fenardi Niz) seem to have an ideal life spending their summers on Jero’s parents farm in the wetlands in southern Argentina. They get to do all the usual boyish country things and everything is quite perfect until their burgeoning sexuality hits in and their relationship briefly takes on a different physical dimension.
Out of Iraq. Grab at least two boxes of Kleenex to watch this new documentary of a heartbreaking love story between an Iraqi soldier and an Iraqi military translator that always looks like it could end badly at any moment with either of the men being killed simply for being gay. The newsreels are full each day of so called ‘honor killings’ in the Middle East where family and neighborhoods take the law into their own hands and subject any LGBT person they can catch to a brutal barbaric killings. Somehow though it takes on even greater significance when you realize that this is the very same fate that could befall these very charming young men whose own tale is unfolding on the screen. It’s Valentines Day, so this does have a happy ending.
