Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAfter its wonderfully dramatic and promising opening scene with one middle-aged transvestite dishing out therapy to another matronly looking one lying on the couch, Summer Nights slowly muddles it way through a series of stories that often fail to make much sense. The main plot strand concerns Mylene the one lying on the couch … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe queer French auteur François Ozon turns to a very English novel for the source of his latest bittersweet romance. Evidently, he read Aidan Chambers’s 1982 novel Dance on My Grave. when he was a teenager and this story of teen angst must have really resounded deeply with him that almost four decades later … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesItalian filmmaker Gabriele Muccino is back on his home turf after a stint in Hollywood where, amongst other things, he directed two Will Smith movies. His new movie is the story of two Italian teenagers and although Muccino, in a story he co-wrote with Dale Nall, briefly starts their tale in Rome, he moves the action to the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFour friends (3 male & 1 female) escape Lisbon one sunny weekend and head to a luxurious villa in the remote countryside. This quartet with their ambiguous sexualities have been friends for the past decade held together by a rather tenuous past. They had all been lovers of the mysterious David and when he … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIt is easy to see how some people may find Argentinian filmmaker Marco Berger’s latest movie way too strung out as he teases us for the entire 105 minutes as to whether his two young protagonist’s budding relationship ever take flight, but it is the most tenderest of tales, so beautifully told, that it’s impossible … Continue reading
