queertiques
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews EVERYTHING WENT FINE the latest film from French gay auteur François Ozon
Everything Went Fine (Tout S’est Bien Passe) is the latest film by acclaimed French film director and writer Francois Ozon. Part of France’s ‘New Wave’ group of directors, Ozon is known for beautiful films with a free-wheeling attitude to human sexuality. Death is also a recurring theme and Everything Went Fine follows in this…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews WE WILL NEVER DIE : a disappointing queer cat & mouse drama
\ A series of 5 episodes of approx 20 min each directed by Tor Iben We Will Never Die begins quoting Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa: We live on desire, what we see is not what we see, it is what we are. Set in Rhodes, Greece, and Germany the plot, an international gay…
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Queerguru reviews FAIRYLAND an excellent film about a gay dad and his daughter growing up in SF in the 70s and 80s
Although it’s over 30 years since the AIDS pandemic decimated the queer community it’s still a very raw memory for so many of us. In the new millennium, we were inundated with fictional movies on the subject, and the majority of them were appalling. Sensationalized, morbid, alarmist, and even excuses to promote rampant homophobia. …
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah’s TOP PICKS OF MUST SEE MOVIES at Queer East Festival, London
The UK’s excellent Queer East Film Festival kicks off again next week. The main festival runs from 18 – 30th April across eight venues in London before a nationwide tour from September to November across 10 cities. The exciting line-up combines contemporary feature films, documentaries, short films, virtual reality and dance productions. 50…
