Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFor her fourth time in the director’s chair Venezuelan/American filmmaker Elia K. Schneider chose to tell a dramatized version of the controversial true-life story of the Law Professor who transitioned into Tamara Adrián and who would go on to become the first transgender person ever elected to Venezuela’s National Assembly. The movie version of the story … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIn 1978 on the outskirts of Recife, a city in the north of Brazil, a subversive decadent theatre troupe are rehearsing one of their most outrageous shows as the last Military Dictatorship starts to crumble. The star is Paulette a self-absorbed over-the-top drag queen and she and the motley cast perform everything from homoerotic skits (leaving … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesDon’t be fooled by the deceptive title of this movie which implies it is just another teenage romp, as Craig Boreham’s feature film debut, is one of the most powerful edgy LGBT dramas to come out of Australia for some years. It’s hard not to compare it with Ana Kokkinos’s 1998 award-winning break-out hit ‘Head … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis is the stories of three middle-aged sad and depressed Iranians trying to cope with the reality that love has simply passed them by.. In this very bittersweet comedy from writer-director Ali Jaberansari we see how these lonely individuals cope with the lack of a romantic relationship . Overweight Mina (Forough Ghajabagli) ironically is … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesTerror Nullius is an anarchic 55 minute scrapbook of hundreds of movies and TV programs sewn together to deliver a two fingered salute to the Crocodile Dundee notion of colonial white Aussie manhood. Crudely clever, but lacking a continuous narrative, it manages to suggest a whole load of cinematic what-if scenarios that film makers could embrace … Continue reading
