queertiques
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The Secret Path
This new gay love story from a married couple of newbie filmmakers Daniel and Richard Mansfield is quite unique. Essentially a two-hander, its the story of a pair of lovers in their late 20’s who are on the run having deserted the British Navy in the early 1800’s. Having come ashore near the rather lush…
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You And The Night aka Les Rencontres d’apres minuit
The opening sequence of French writer/director Yann Gonzalez debut feature starts with confusion that never really eases up through this avant-garde art-house film. Ali and her young handsome beau Mathias (who may or may not be a zombie) are waiting with their transvestite maid Udo for their invited guests to arrive for an orgy. They include The…
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Queen of Amsterdam aka Chez Nous
This delightful feel-good Dutch gay movie has blended elements of ‘Mission Impossible’ with those of ‘La Cage Aux Follies’ that results in a very camp and decidedly old-fashioned jewel-heist comic caper. It all starts at the Chez Nous Bar in Voetboogstraat Alley in the center of Amsterdam where Bertie is the reigning Drag Queen on the…
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Queerguru reviews PRIDE when the UK gay community and the Miners got together to defeat Thatcher
In the summer of 1984 when London’s annual Gay Pride Pride was taking place Mark Ashton (Ben Schnetzer) a young passionate activist (who eerily looked like Morrissey from The Smiths) decided that he wanted to form a Gay & Lesbian group to help support the country’s distressed and embattled miners. U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher…
