Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesChestnut is a beautifully poetic coming-of-age tale that champions those under-rated periods in our lives where we are in-between jobs, or between education and our first proper job. Those eternal times when we mourn the loss of our previous life and are slightly anxious about our future life. We have time on our … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis Canadian relationship drama by director Chloé Robichaud follows the emotional journey of Emma (Sophie Desmarais) from the first scene: on a sunny day she jumps to rest on a floater at the pond, closes her eyes for a while and when she opens them again realizes she is far from the shore and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesScrapper is a gentle new British film debut written and directed by Charlotte Regan. Twelve-year-old Georgie (bright newcomer Lola Campbell) has recently been orphaned by the death of her single mother. To avoid going into care, she convinces social services and her school that a fake uncle, ‘Winston Churchill’, is looking after her. She … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatter1 Comment on First preview of MAESTRO the sophomore film directed by Bradley Cooper about Leonard Bernstein the quintessential MusicianLeonard Bernstein was not just an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian, but he was considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time and the first American conductor to receive international acclaim. As well as being one the most celebrated prolific musicians, by all accounts his … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe tale of Egyptian Nabil (Ryan Ali) his awareness and the reencounter, stitch by stitch, with his departed mother Selma in an urban overdeveloped Toronto. We learn Nabil, in his early 20s, was a single child from a broken marriage, he and his mother lived in Cairo, she passed away and he moved to … Continue reading
