Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideDom, a sad looking sap of a man, is the night porter at a cheap shabby hotel in the seaport of Le Havre. As he is settling in for another quiet night Fiona, barefoot and with just the clothes she stands in, walks in and asks for a room, and then announces that she is a Fairy and … 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
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideA morbidly obese unemployed hairdresser in Eastern Berlin is sent by Social Services for a job interview in a Hair Salon in a Shopping Mall which she fails to get the job as she is not ‘asthetically pleasing’ ….. the Owners actually words were “what we sell is beauty, and you’re not beautiful, my dear”. Hard … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe Invisibles is an intriguing hybrid docudrama that bears witness to the number of German Jews who chose to go into hiding rather than being captured by the Nazis in WW2. In 1943 Goebbels the Reich Minister of Propaganda of Germany declared that after all the purges there were no Jews left in Berlin. … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideErika Cohn’s very sympathetic profile on Khoulud Al-Faqih who became the first woman appointed to be a Judge in a Palestinian Shari’a Court in the West Bank bravely attempts to uncover some of the mystique and secrecy that cloaks this Islamic culture. Most of the time she succeeds exceptionally well, but on some occasions, … Continue reading
