queertiques
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Queerguru reviews “Casa Susanna” the 1950s/60s/Catskills resort discreet refuge for cross-dressing men and transgender women.
The award-winning queer filmmaker Sebastien Lifshitz, whose day job is as a Professor at La Fémis the film and television school of PSL Research University new film CASA SUZANNA is his third documentary with transgenderism as the subject matter. Bambi, his spell-binding story Marie-Pierre Pruvot, an Algerian, born trans woman who had a long and…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden @BFI London Film Fest reviews “A Room Of My Own” that makes a case for how sad moments define people
A Room of My Own (Directed by Ioseb ‘Soso’ Bliadze), set in Tbilisi, Georgia, during the pandemic asks one central question; do circumstances turn you into a mess, or does being a mess create your circumstances? It then artfully avoids coming down on one side or the other. Tina (Taki Mumladze, also the co-writer…
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Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews UÝRA – THE RISING FOREST a trans-indigenous artist travels through the Amazon forest
The documentary tells a story about humans and plants in a singular context. The opening sequence is one of a devastating rainforest region that shortly afterward looks like an abstraction. The Mother of the Forest and Emerson Pontes / Uýra Sodoma lead us through a fascinating narrative on nature and culture and how…
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Queerguru reviews MY POLICEMAN that fails to live up all its hype
My Policeman is one of those overhyped films that come to you with a great promise that it fails to deliver. Pop star/actor Harry Styles may be very handsome but he is no matinee idol seems totally out of his depth playing a lead role. He is the least arresting policeman we have ever…
