Manon Bouquet is a French stage artist and choreographer whose work has community and exchange as central themes. In her latest project, Le Groupe, she explores the artistic stagnation that arose from the pandemic and how collaborative energies, inspired by love and interdependency, helped her through the dark days. The soundtrack, Jaime XX’s “Gosh,” recalls … Continue reading
Paris-based filmmaker Julien Pujol made this very striking wee film with Germain Louvet one of the stars of the Paris Opera Ballet. With its Wagnerian score the creative director Delphine Roche called it ‘Tempest’ as she said the storm is a powerful motif, one that is repeatedly present in the history of painting, literature and … Continue reading
Dusty Springfield is probably the most iconic and inspirational British female singer EVER. Since her first hit “I Only Want to Be with You” charted in 1963, Dusty amassed twenty top 40 hits in a career that spanned over thirty years. Hits such as “Son of a Preacher Man,” “Stay Awhile,” “Some of Your … Continue reading
Just Friends is a very entertaining rom-com originally made for Dutch TV but the cute young leads guaranteed that it would make its way out into a LGBT world where hopeless romantics lap up well produced sentimental dramas like this It is the tale of two college age men from totally different cultures who … Continue reading
Just Gender from writer/director George Zuber must easily qualify as the most successful documentary on explaining the whole transgender spectrum in a language that perfectly articulates the phenomena, and in such a manner that enlightens and educates us all. The first surprising discovery is the very fact that Zuber made this in 2013 and although … Continue reading