Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWhen one usually thinks of Switzerland from a political viewpoint, it’s the countries centuries old neutrality that has seen it sit out Wars that comes to mind. The idea then of any Swiss citizen being any sort of political firebrand would seem such an unlikely occurrence, but this entertaining feel-good drama is about one Swiss … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIt would be wrong to even infer that Brit filmmakers ever play down the sheer atrocities that occurred during WW2, but there is definitely a whole platform of them who somehow make their war dramas seem almost like a squabble between gentleman that has somehow got out of hand. The Exception is very much … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIt seems that Europeans have the edge when it comes to telling such elegant tales on the sensitive subject of dementia. Hard to forget the image of Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva as the devoted elderly couple in Micheal Hanke’s Amour in 2012. They stole all our hearts and won every award imaginable in … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guide16 year old Hazel Graze is permanently attached to an oxygen tank that now keeps her alive after her most recent bouts of cancer. If knowing that her days on earth are severely limited isn’t bad enough, she has to cope with her well-meaning parents and their enforced sunny dispositions to just get through each … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn the opening scenes of this historical drama we see a distinguished looking German gentleman accosting a traveling family of 5 to ask if he may follow behind them as he is unsure about driving alone on the desolate dirt roads in the middle of the vast plains of Patagonia. The year is 1960 and … Continue reading
