queertiques
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews ‘ I ONLY REST IN THE STORM’ a new queer drama by Pedro Pinho,
Solidarity is easy when structurally nothing is missing In this 3.34 hour film we follow a white man from Europe in Western Africa. Sergio (Sergio Coragem) drives through the desert from Portugal to Guinea and lands, literally, into the different social segments that inhabit the country and Bissau´s social diversity. Sandstorms are present in the first part…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews the award-winning Block Pass, a dramatic coming-of age tale set in semi-rural France.
Handsome (inside and out) nineteen-year-old best friends Willy (Sayyid El Alami) and Jojo (Amaury Foucher) spend all their time together. The childhood friends live in semi-rural western France near Angers. There they immerse themselves in the colourful local motocross scene, and along with their rowdy bunch of friends, also get up to all the usual…
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Queerguru reviews A FRIEND OF DOROTHY a gem of a movie with the indefatigable Miriam Margoyles
It may come as a bit of a shock for fans of Graham Norton’s TV Chat Show that there is so much to the potty mouth veteran lesbian actress Miriam Margolyes. In her native UK the 84-year-old BAFTA-winning character actress gained a cult following for her enormous body of work from her Charles Dickens Solo…
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Queerguru reviews ELEANOR THE GREAT starring the indomitable 95 year Academy Award Nominee JUNE SQUIBB
We are not sure what came first in this equation, Double Oscar Actress Nominee Scarlett Johnson, making her film directing debut, or Oscar Actress Nominee 95-year-old June Squibb making her first starring role, but the combination made for sheer movie magic Miss Squibb plays Eleanor Morganstein, a high-spirited widow who lives in Florida and shares…
