Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews MYSTERIOUS WAYS a rare queer NZ/Samoan love story

  DO NOT MAKE UGLY SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL Reverend Petter Simmons  is  an Anglican Vicar advocating for change  at St. John´s Church in a small town in New Zealand . He is a widower, has a teenage daughter but is now in love with Samoan Jason, who served 8 years in prison and is the actual … Continue reading

Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews NANA’s BOYS : 24 troubled hours in the life of a gay couple

  Amari (David J, Cork)  and Q (Jared Wayne Gladly) are a couple of black gay men in their 3Os living in New York City.  The action takes place from one day to the other. It is Amari´s 30th birthday,  but he wakes up feeling old and not in the mood for a celebration. Q … Continue reading

Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews “Nelly and Nadine “: the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944

    The film captured me from the beginning;  a sequence of a newsreel from April 28th, 1945 shot at Malmö Harbor, Sweden,  in which a large group of women reaches freedom after German concentration camps. We see them smile and say hello to the camera, there is Nadine with her white scarf, striped uniform, … Continue reading

Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews newly restored THE WOUNDED MAN  (L´homme blessé) the 1983 film by Patrice Chéreau

  Henri  (Jean-Hugues Anglade) is a  young man from a working family of four in an unnamed French city,  his sister is going to Paris and they all go to the train station to say goodbye.  The train station is also a house of glances where men search for action, a cruising place where a … Continue reading

Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews NOT KNOWING a queer Turkish drama now streaming online

    Writer and director Leyla Yilmaz in her second film Not Knowing  (“Bilmemek”) gives a glance of Turkish society in general, and in particular, the portrait of a family of three, living in pre-pandemic Istambul.  Sinan (Yurdaer Okur),  the father, works with containers at the port for a big sea transportation corporation that has … Continue reading

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