queertiques
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews BLUE JEAN a brilliant new lesbian drama set in Thatcher’s Britain
“Do you know what the phrase ‘Fight or Flight’ means?” asks gay Geordie PE teacher Jean (Rosy McEwen) of her teenage students at the beginning of the brilliant new drama Blue Jean. It is a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival. It’s obviously on…
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Queerguru’s Richard Gilles reviews FULL TIME (aka À plein temps) a film by Eric Gravel
Full-time is an achievement of realistic cinema at its pinnacle. In this film, writer/director Eric Gravel directs a lonely heroine burning herself out between work and bringing two young children during a general strike in France, reminiscing of the most recent 2019 general strike. The result is a strong and realistic…
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Queerguru’s TOP PICKS of TRANSGENDER FILMS in 2022
Since we started QUEERGURU in 2015 there has been a very significant increase in the number of films made about the transgender/gender-queer community. They are not only very informative and entertaining but each of them makes their own significant contribution to the continuing dialogue about LGBTQ communities as a whole. The Queerguru do their…
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Behind The Lens : two vintage classic queer films at The Cinema Museum, London
It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives,aka Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt (Germany 1971) dir Rosa von Praunheim. This is the first of four LGBT+ History Month Film Series of “Behind The Lens” screenings over four evenings…
