Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiques“All Shall Be Well “is a new lesbian drama from Hong Kong director Ray Yeung that is moving and beautifully made. It opens with a scene from the everyday life of two women, shopping at street markets and then unloading the food at home. We intuit that they might be lovers, especially as … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesPRIDE Month sees a whole host of queer Film Festivals being mounted around the globe. The first one out of the gate is the 18th Edition of XPOSED in Berlin which kicks off on May 30th and runs through to June 2nd. It was, and still is, very much a passion project as … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAustralia’s rough, macho culture is examined from a queer perspective in Sunflower, a tough coming-of-age, coming-out drama set in the suburbs of Melbourne. Director/writer Gabriel Carrubba’s debut introduces us to Leo (Liam Mollica), a handsome, strapping seventeen-year-old high school student. His home is a working-class Greek-Italian household with his truck driver dad (Sal Galofaro), mum … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesA sequence of still images of a place that seems to be a mansion into the woods introduces us to lonely Joe (Khalil Gharbia) wearing a red t-shirt. After a while we learn the residence is a juvenile reform center. Joe has Arab roots and shards of memories with his mother walking on a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWhat dyke wouldn’t enjoy a road movie featuring two women in a camper van? Especially an old, beat-up camper that has been lovingly cleaned, restored, and decorated by the main character, Ele. This subtitled movie from Italy begins with a blurry nighttime shot of a young woman running from a building, with men in … Continue reading
