Great news from London this morning. Or more specifically BFI Flare Queer Film Festival that kicks off next month. We have still yet to see their full program but we now know of one International Premiere we simply cannot miss.
JUMP DARLING
features the final starring role of the late great Cloris Leachman (a mere 94 when is was being filmed) playing a grandmother who lets her drag queen grandson move in with her.
The debut film from Canadian filmmaker Phil Connell follows the story of actor turned drag queen Russell (Thomas Duplessie), who finds himself returning to rural Canada to move in with his declining grandmother
Russell an actor turned drag queen is at a crossroads in his life and is struggling to find his voice,. So he escapes to his grandmother’s house in the country. There he finds sardonic Margaret in steep decline. In a perfect, if precarious solution for both of them, he moves in to protect her from her greatest fear – the local nursing home.
Encouraged by his Grandmother he develops his alter ego Fishy Falters to play in the local college bras. Plus he has to del with his overprotective mother, a sexy-though-mysterious college boy, a cockney city gay bar owner, and the spectre of his failed-artist grandfather, Russell
Jump, Darling also features appearances from Canadian drag performers Fay Slift, Miss Fiercealicious and Canada’s Drag Race star Tynomi Banks.
Tickets for the BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Festival’s digital screening of Jump Darlingwill be available to BFI Members from Friday 26 February and to the general public from Tuesday 2 March. DON’T MISS IT …..
For more information about key dates and tickets for the 2021 BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Festival, click here.
P.S. If you don't live in the UK but still want to see this (and other Festival movies)
go download a VPN
and you will not miss a thing
Labels: 2021, BFI Flare, Cloris Leachman, movie preview
