Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis unexpected and rather remarkable new film from first time writer/director David Lambert (that I discovered by accident) realistically scrutinizes the intimate details of the rise and fall of an edgy gay relationship, devoid of stereotypes. It premiered at Cannes Film Festival during the Critics Week (picking upan Award) and most of the Reviewers then made a point … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIf I were a member of the Academy I would give the Best Actor gong to Javier Bardem for his heart-wrenching performance as Uxebel in ‘Biutiful’. It’s not that I do not appreciate Mr. Firth’s stunning stammering turn which will inevitably get him the Oscar, its just watching Mr. Bardem intriguingly peel back all the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIt’s so hard not to think of Sylvia Plath when you watch this heart-wrenching biopic of the celebrated but deeply troubled South African poet Ingrid Jonker as both of then took their own lives at a young age. Plath was just 30 when she poisoned herself in 1963, and Jonker drowned herself two years later … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe first words we hear in the movie’s opening scene are “I should never have left my country!‘ They are uttered slowly with great sadness by Moncef a 60 year man of Middle-Eastern origin. He and his family have ended up as immigrants in Paris far from home and he is desperate to insure that … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideBlond thirty-something year old Ingrid has lost her sight abruptly to an undiagnosed condition and now, depressed and unsettled, she just whiles away in the stark white high rise apartment in Oslo that she shares with Morton her architect husband. She refuses to ever venture outside at all and actually suspects that Morton actually sneaks back … Continue reading
