Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesCalling ALL queer romantics: has NEWFEST got something for you! They are producing an excellent retrospective with some cult rom-coms and a few rare gems that you haven’t seen yet. So if you are looking for that happy-ever-after tale that will have you sobbing into your kleenex or just a night of love … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesTowards Happiness is director Paola Cipolletta’s drama about living life rather than just surviving it. Andrea (Francesco Di Leva) is a 40-year-old account manager and lives a rather mundane life in Naples with his wife Lucia (Miriam Candurro), a call center worker, and their ten-year-old son, Tommaso (Giuseppe Pirozzi). Their marriage is not going … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAbercrombie and Fitch with their preppy clothing had fallen off my radar some years ago, and it wasn’t until I watched Alison Klayman’s intriguing new doc WHITE HOT that I knew their stores were still trading. Klayman traces the rise and fall of the brand which in the 1990s to 2000s was the biggest … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesEverything of Value (Alles van Waarde) is director Stanley Kolk’s originally constructed background story to a violent assault on two queer men one night in the shadow of a church in a small town in Holland. Kolk cleverly combines a fake documentary format, interviews and footage of the behind-the-scenes casting to recall this disturbing … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesCOMEDY IS MERELY A TRAGEDY HAPPENING TO SOMEONE ELSE During the fourth wave of a pandemic in an indefinite time that may be the present moment, the near past, or in the coming future, there is a virus affecting the brain and memory in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This wacky surreal fictional film directed by … Continue reading
