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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews LUKAS DHONT’s ‘wounding masterpiece’ CLOSE at BFI London Film Festival
On a film that loosely follows the seasons, to say that Lukas Dhont’s Close might make you weep is as inevitable as saying winter might follow autumn. The emotions are so finely evoked in this masterful coming of age drama they could have been drawn with an eyelash. 13-year-olds Leo (Eden Dambrine) and Remi…
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Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews REX GILDO / THE LAST DANCE (DER LETZTE TANZ) the double life of one of Germany’s most famous entertainers
The biographical film tells the story of how Ludwig Franz Hirtreiter (1936-1999) became Rex Gildo, an idol of its time in Germany. He was born in Bavaria and is buried in Munich, at one side rests his manager Fred Miekley, and at the other his cousin and wife Marion Ohlsen. He was a well-known…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ALL KINDS OF LOVE a comedy-drama about complex love lives
All Kinds of Love is a comedy-drama about the complex love lives of a collection of people living at a relatively slow pace in a small town in the US. We first meet the rather intense, slightly melancholy, Max (Matthew Montgomery) and his more relaxed partner Josh (Steve Callahan), who are splitting up just…
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DIRTY QUEERS: LGBTQ+ artists showcased in new exhibition
If you are in London this coming Saturday, October 8th then you should be making your way without fail to Bateman Street Gallery in Soho. For two days only they are showing Dirty Queers a “glorious, multi-sensory exhibition of photography, film, art, and sculpture brought to you by a collective of sex-positive, queer artists”…
