queertiques

  • The Test of Love aka  L’Épreuve d’Amour

    The Test of Love aka L’Épreuve d’Amour

      Marielle’s (Marie-Josée Croze) life for the past 20 years with husband Paul (Fred Testot) and their two teenage children in this sleepy provincial French town has been happy and relatively uneventful.  That is until she leaves work unexpectedly early one day and arrives home to discover her husband dressed in women’s clothes.   Her initial disgust quickly turns to anger…

  • Postcards From London

    Postcards From London

    It’s been over 20 years since Steve McLean’s feature film directing debut Postcards from America which was based on the writings of  David Wojnarowicz was released. His sophomore feature Postcards from London, that he wrote as well as directed, may have been intended primarily as an intriguing flight of his very vivid imagination (which it is) but after…

  • Still Waiting In The Wings

    Still Waiting In The Wings

    How can we put this nicely?  Still Waiting In The Wings is one of those sequels that should never have been made.  We may be very slightly to blame as in 2014 we finished our review of the original Waiting In The Wings with “It’s funny, cute, silly and highly enjoyable with a high-octane energy…

  • Dear Mom

    Dear Mom

    It’s very tough being the slightest bit sympathetic for Helosia (Letícia Sabatella) the protagonist in Brazilian filmmaker Jeremias Moreira Filho, and Dani Carneiro’s   family drama as she refuses to take any responsibility for her unhappy life.    She blames her elderly mother Ruth (Selma Egrei ) for the her unfulfilling job as  a hospital doctor, her…