queertiques
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Blue Is The Warmest Color aka La Vie D’Adele
Abdellatif Kechiche’s searingly beautiful story of two young women falling in and out of love with each other has got the Critics all riled up. Especially the heterosexual male ones who who have been almost unanimous in declaring this movie that includes long drawn out scenes of the most explicit lesbian sex as a ‘masterpiece’.…
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Absent aka Ausente
16 year old Martin Blanco claims to have something in his eye, so Sebastian his High School Swimming Coach whisks him out of Class and takes him to the Eye Hospital Emergency Room. The doctors give him the all clear, so the teacher offers to drive him home. School is over for the day, and Martin realises…
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Peyote
Pablo is a wide-eyed innocent young teenager, who left alone to his own devices in his rather luxurious home when his parents take off the beach, films the toys he smashes up as part of some childish scenarios. When he’s not doing that he shoots half naked pictures of himself for girls on the Internet that…
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Longing Nights
From newbie Spanish writer/director Tiago Leão comes this overwhelmingly sad docudrama of four 20 something year olds who seek pleasure whenever and with whoever they can to escape the sheer loneliness of their lives. Set in the night streets of Madrid, these four separate different stories are each steeped in the same world of sex…
