Alain Guiraudie’s intriguing new thriller is about as homoerotic as can be without crossing the divide into soft porn. Its set on a tranquil isolated lake in a beautiful corner of the French countryside where the beach front is sparsely occupied by a handful of men sunbathing in the buff. Behind them lies a small … Continue reading
After 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
The 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
Antoine is the middle one of three Parisian brothers, and is the one who has taken it upon himself to sort out his siblings unhappy lives even though his own is heading south too. He works as a writer producing catalogues for exhibitions who are feeling the pinch in a tough economic climate, and he … Continue reading
Tubby French tractor salesman Armand is having some sort of mid-life crisis. Openly gay with a penchant for mature married men that he picks up in a cruising area outside of the country town where he lives, his life takes a dramatic turn when he jumps to the defense of a teenage girl who is … Continue reading