Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideSet in Tehran in 1958 (when the Shah was on the throne of what was still known as Persia) Nasser Ali Khan an obsessive and brilliant musician is driven to suicidal despair when his wife smashes up his irreplaceable violin in a fit of (justified) pique. He very melodramatically takes to his bed for 8 … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe year is 1942 and Avi a German Jew gets stranded in a Forest as he tries to escape to Switzerland. He is rescued by a Fritz a burly local farmer who provides him with a safe refuge in return for Avi’s help as he has been running his rather isolated farm with just his … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideActress Maria Enders a 40-ish movie star is having something of a middle-aged crisis with her marriage dissolving and her career at a crossroads. She has been persuaded to travel to Switzerland to accept an Award on behalf of her close friend the playwright Wilhelm Melchior who had given her the breakthrough role that started her … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guide‘Cowboys’ is an oddball absurdist Croatian comedy that was such a hit at home it became the country’s official submission for an Academy Award Best Foreign Picture Nomination last year. It didn’t win anything but it did at least show the world what extraordinary filmmakers they are, and what a glorious bizarre sense of humor … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guide“La vie m’est insupportable… Pardonnez-moi.” (“Life is unbearable for me… Forgive me.”) … this becomes very clear on the very last minute of this biopic of one of the most versatile popstars of the past century. Dalida, or simply Dali, had it all! Born from an Italian family who emigrated to Cairo during the … Continue reading
