Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWhen Friet an impossibly perfect German exchange student comes to stay with teenage Eva and her family in their home in rural Holland, life as they know it changes almost beyond recognition. Up till then this dysfunctional family has somehow coasted along, but that was all before Friet fed them doubt, fear, insecurity and even … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAntoine is the middle one of three Parisian brothers, and is the one who has taken it upon himself to sort out his siblings unhappy lives even though his own is heading south too. He works as a writer producing catalogues for exhibitions who are feeling the pinch in a tough economic climate, and he … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesPanamanian filmmaker Jorge Ameer has produced three compilations of short queer movies under the title Straight Men and the Men Who Love them, a theme he comes back too in this new soap melodrama The Family Tree. It’s the story of Victor Gardel (Keith Roenke) a lonely single workaholic who spends his life rescuing … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFrom Colombia, not a country that one usually associates with LGBT movies, comes this very touching melodrama about two women who are mourning the recent tragic death of the same man, and who surprise themselves with how things develop when they get together to share their loss. Andres (Manuel José Chávez) had been estranged from … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIt’s only natural that the more people complain that a film is greatly offensive, the more we get intrigued enough to want to see it. Even more so when the whiners are the ultra-conservative religious who are up in arms about a comedy satire group that put their spin on celebrating the Baby Jesus’s … Continue reading
