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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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HANNAH ARENDT
German Philosopher Hannah Arendt and her husband the Marxist poet/philosopher Heinrich Blücher, both Jews, managed to escape the French Detention Camp where they had been imprisoned and lived out the rest of World War 2 in New York. They quickly established themselves, and Arendt scored many prestigious teaching positions …. she was the first ever…
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OMA & BELLA
Oma and Bella are two warm and feisty octogenarians who live together in Berlin. Oma was originally from Poland and Bella from Lithuania and they both ended up in Berlin separately where they met each after the end of the World War 2 which had annihilated their entire families. They were as Oma said ‘displaced persons without so…
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IT’S ALL SO QUIET
From the recent Berlin Film Festival comes this overwhelmingly sad tale of a closeted gay Dutch farmer whose intensely private and repressed life seems to be heading towards either the point of no-return or a major turning point. Helmer is 55 years old and when he is not attending to the few cattle and sheep…
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STILL MINE
Craig Morrison and his wife Irene have been married for some 60 years and live on their family farm in rural New Brunswick. It’s been a really tough life working the land especially as Craig is very wedded to the old ways of doing things. Never more evident in their rather dilapidated farmhouse which they…
