Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFor his latest movie …….his 20th …..Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar has done a 360 degree turn from his last film the outrageously camp farce ‘I’m So Excited‘ and eschewed comedy completely to make one of his excellent signature female-centric melodramas. Julieta is loosely based on three short stories from the Canadian Pulitizer-Prize writer Janet Munro and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideTurkish filmmaker Ceyda Torun and her cinematographer Charlie Wuppermann must have the patience of saints to make this enchanting new documentary of theirs, as they stalked and trailed what seemed like thousands of cats that roam the streets of Istanbul for the best part of two months. What had originally enticed Torun, a native of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWe are sadly too used to Hollywood making big-budget remakes of successful independent European films which inevitable end up as poor shadows of the original and fail at the box office. e.g. the French ‘Anthony Zimmer‘ that became the big Angelina Jolie dud ‘The Tourist‘. However in the case of the Spanish sex comedy ‘Kiki’ … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis debut feature film from Venezuelan filmmaker Gustavo Ronon Cordova which is not just a mere indictment of the financial consequences of his country’s near economic collapse, but on the dire effects it has on the family. His two-hander of a story is of a father and son living in near slum conditions in a rough no-go area of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideVeteran Australian filmmaker Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy) has evidently taken some 25 years to adapt the the bestselling novel by Madeleine St John to the screen. The result is a decidedly old-fashioned comedy drama that highlights the gentle world of Sydney in 1959 with just a hint of a message about the settlement … Continue reading
