Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesQueer actor and filmmaker Nicolas Maury was discovered internationally thanks to his role as an extroverted assistant in Call My Agent, the infamous series based in Paris about actors’ frantic agents. My Best Part is his directorial debut and he also plays the main lead, an openly gay, oversensitive, troubled actor reaching his 40s, … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesJacques Audiard’s 13th District is a strange, fascinating movie, with the definite touch of a great film director, a mysterious painting set in dreamy aesthetics, a shadow floating through the light, a black and white journey between Love, Lust, and Lightness. 13th District is the photography of bursting new lives, of young human … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIn Peaceful, writer/director Emmanuelle Bercot gives the lion’s share to two giants of the French cinema, Mademoiselle Deneuve and Benoît Magimel. A story within the story: in real life, Catherine Deneuve suffered from a stroke during a scene in a hospital and it took two years for the film to be finished. There … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAlice Diop films the suburb where she grew up and still lives, crossed by a suburban train line, the common thread of her 4th documentary, Us. This unifying title sums up the ethics of the film director for whom the stories of immigrants who freshly arrived in France, and the identity of the host … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesUnconventional is the new queer comedy-drama series from super talented actor/writer/producer/director Kit Williamson who brought us the fantastic Eastsiders drama series. We follow queer siblings Noah (Kit Williamson) and Margot Guillory (Aubrey Peeples) and their partners Dan Charles and Elisa Slate (James Bland (also co-director and writer) and Briana Venskus) and the challenges they … Continue reading