queertiques
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Queerguru reviews Ferzan Özpetek’s NUOVO OLIMPO a passionate queer relationship spread over some 30 years as it struggles to fulfill its potential.
Ferzan Özpetek’s feature film Hamam aka [Steam: The Turkish Bath] in 1997 is one of those movie-making debuts that stick in your memory. In it, Özpetek takes a mesmerizing look at how special places and people can transform other people. This romantic drama film is a haunting joy Since then this Italian/Turkish queer…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Y A UNE ÉTOILE (THERE’S A STAR) a unique documentary about rural queer life of Nova Scotia
Generations of queer people from small villages and towns across the world have migrated to larger cities, looking for a more accepting community, more fun, better choice of partners and better career and cultural options. The same decision-making process, of course, applies to many straight people. But what if you’re queer and love…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews NARROW PATH TO HAPPINESS the quest to record the uplifting love story of an Hungarian Romani gay couple
Narrow Path to Happiness is an uplifting fly-on-the-wall documentary following passionate Hungarian ethnic Romani couple Gergo Gagyi and Lenard Varadi in their ambitious quest to document their lives and romance as a musical. Gergo and Lenard met whilst living in an extremely poor rural Hungarian Romani community. Homophobia is rife in the…
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THE CROWN : the disappointing final series lacks in facts, replacing them with some questionable fantasies
The late Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth is so lucky as she didn’t have to watch the highly-anticipated over-hyped final season of The Crown. As the new series starts with the death of Diana, the scriptwriter’s biggest problem is that the main players in this drama are dead and so much of what we…
