Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesEytan Fox the ‘father’ of Israeli queer cinema that helmed such classic dramas as ‘Yossi & Jaeger‘ and ‘The Bubble’ seems to be mellowing with age. His last film was a delicious comedy about Eurovision called Cupcakes, which he followed up with an hilarious TV Series The Bar Mitzvah and now he is releasing a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAfter its wonderfully dramatic and promising opening scene with one middle-aged transvestite dishing out therapy to another matronly looking one lying on the couch, Summer Nights slowly muddles it way through a series of stories that often fail to make much sense. The main plot strand concerns Mylene the one lying on the couch … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe queer French auteur François Ozon turns to a very English novel for the source of his latest bittersweet romance. Evidently, he read Aidan Chambers’s 1982 novel Dance on My Grave. when he was a teenager and this story of teen angst must have really resounded deeply with him that almost four decades later … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesItalian filmmaker Gabriele Muccino is back on his home turf after a stint in Hollywood where, amongst other things, he directed two Will Smith movies. His new movie is the story of two Italian teenagers and although Muccino, in a story he co-wrote with Dale Nall, briefly starts their tale in Rome, he moves the action to the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFour friends (3 male & 1 female) escape Lisbon one sunny weekend and head to a luxurious villa in the remote countryside. This quartet with their ambiguous sexualities have been friends for the past decade held together by a rather tenuous past. They had all been lovers of the mysterious David and when he … Continue reading