queertiques
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A Fantastic Woman
Sebastián Lelio’s extraordinary wonderful new movie gets to the very core of Chilean society’s inbred homophobia and transphobia that threatens the very existence of Marina (Daniela Vega) the protagonist simply because they resent the very fact that she had been the light of her dead lover’s life. The movie opens with 57-year-old Orlando (Francisco Reyes) getting ready…
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Dropping The Soap
Taking aim at the banality of US Soap Opera is an easy target and the creators of the very entertaining web series Drop The Soap have a great deal of fun at parodying all the over-the-top aspects that have made them such a staple of Daytime Television for decades. ‘Colluded Lives’ the fictional ‘Soap’ at the…
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WALLFLOWERS : a saga of eternally single New Yorkers
Wallflowers one of the best and quirkiest of queer web series from 2013/4 has finally made it to DVD, and if you’ve never caught this wee gem when it was first broadcast, you’ll soon be hooked. It is a very funny saga of a group of single New Yorkers in their 30’s who simply cannot…
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About Us
This feature film debut from Brazilian filmmaker Mauro Carvalho is an utterly charming tale of young love that failed to run its course once real life got in its way. It is told to us by one half of the couple Diego (Thiago Cazado) some years later as he reflects back on what life was like before…
