Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIt’s an unbearably hot Santiago Christmas Eve 1986 in those pre-tech days before cellphones were invented and when families still had to talk to each other. However Borja (Cristóbal Rodríguez-Costabal) ‘s family don’t. Well not very much. He’s a precocious teenager about to turn 17 and obsessed with movies especially the stack of obscure … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiques‘Coming Out” is a unique part of queer history being the first and only gay feature film made in East Germany. And if that is not enough, it actually premiered on November 9th 1989 …. the day the Berlin Wall fell. The story centers on a young teacher Philipp (Matthias Freihof) who enters a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis excellent ‘comedy of manners’ movie set in Paris is about Manu, a Pediatrician in his mid 40’s with a very successful life, who desperately wants to be a Dad even though his determination causes him to break up with his longstanding partner Philippe a Lawyer who has no paternal instincts at all. Like Florida, … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesOne can only imagine when the Finnish Film Academy submitted Concrete Night as the country’s official submission for the Best Foreign Picture Oscar in 2014, that the Finnish Tourist Authorities must have had a royal fit. This deeply disturbing story is shot in a bleak unforgiving depressing public housing project in one of Helsinki’s rougher … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis very first LGBT movie made in Slovenia makes for very scary viewing. This debut feature from filmmaker Darko Stante is a brutal twist on a coming out tale that is both compelling and and also shockingly violent. It’s the tale of Andrej (an exceptionally talented Matej Zemljic) a dispirited teenager who drifts from one … Continue reading
