Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFor his debut feature film Argentinian filmmaker Lucas Santa Ana’s story is about three teenage male best friends who in 1996 go on a beach camping vacation together which ends up changing their relationships with each other for good. Dani (Javier De Pietro) is the videographer of the group filming all their activities including when they … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesLuca Guadagnino’s latest, and best movie has been the subject of a stealth marketing campaign which revealed little of substance about the movie but somehow hyped expectations to a dizzy height. Thankfully for once they proved extremely accurate as this near-faultless film about an intergenerational summer love affair is a sublimely perfect coming-of-age story that is … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFIlmmaker Christiaan Olwagen’s enchanting coming-of-age musical dramedy set in his homeland of South Africa takes a trope of extreme obstacles facing gay men in the 1980’s with such an inspired touch that makes this such a sheer joy of a movie. It’s the tale of teenage Johan Niemand (Schalk Bezuidenhout) who although he lives … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWhen German high-schooler Phil (Louis Hoffman) returns from summer camp he is greeted so enthusiastically by his mother Glass (Sabine Timoteo) and his best friend Kat (Svenja Jung) as if he’d been away for much longer than just three weeks. We soon discover however that both these women tend to act melodramatically over almost every … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesClay Farmers is a queer western-based romance that was made in 1988 a full 17 years before Brokeback Mountain, although it never created anything like the same impact as its successor. It is the debut, and only feature-length film from director A P Gonzalez from the only script ever written by Michael Moore was … Continue reading
