QUEERGURU
Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
-
THE JEWISH CARDINAL aka Le métis de Dieu
The film opens in 1969 and we see a young priest precariously careering through heavy traffic the streets of Paris as he is late for a meeting with his Bishop. Instead of receiving news about his expected move to Jerusalem he is told instead that the Pope has appointed him Bishop of Orleans. Totally…
-
Life Most Wonderful
When watching Bulgarian filmmaker Svetoslav Draganov’s new documentary about the three Liliev brothers unfold, you can be forgiven in thinking at first that there is possibly more than a touch or irony in the title of his film. The brothers share their surname, but that’s where the similarity ends. Their mother died a few years…
-
The Normal Heart
Larry Kramer is perpetually angry. This prominent loud-mouthed writer and gay activist has been shouting out his highly personal take on some of life’s iniquities and in-equalities for the past 40 years and has made himself famously unpopular. It was his exasperation with the apathy of the gay community when the AIDS scare first started…
-
Belle
This extraordinary tale from 1789 of the daughter of a West Indian Slave and an aristocrat British Navy Captain was so far fetched that it had to be true. Like something out of the pages of a Jane Austen novel, it is the tale of Sir John Lindsay taking charge of his illegitimate daughter after the sudden death…
