You should never ever need an excuse to visit Dublin as it is impossible not to have a cracking time in Ireland’s glorious capital city where the men talk as fast as they drink. However if you do need a reason then there can be no better one than this coming weekend for the 27th Edition of GAZE Film Festival. This has become Ireland’s largest LGBT film event, and the country’s biggest LGBT gathering outside of Dublin Pride.
The programming for the 5 day Event is diverse with films from everywhere on the LGBTQ spectrum and a healthy inclusion of he nest of international queer cinema too.
https://www.gaze.ie/ August 1st - 5th 2019
Here are just a few of our favorite picks coming up over the next few days ;
CONSEQUENCES: This very first LGBT movie made in Slovenia makes for very scary viewing. This debut feature from filmmaker DARKO STANTE is a brutal twist on a coming out tale that is both compelling and and also shockingly violent. It’s the tale of Andrej (an exceptionally talented MATEJ ZEMLJIC) a dispirited closeted teenager who drifts from one troubled scenario to another. When he ends upin court his mother who has long given up on him encourages the Judge to send him to a center for juvenile criminals. And that’s when his troubles really start.
KNIFE & HEART: This campy gay slash horror flick from avant garde queer French filmmaker Yann Gonzalez is definitely a very acquired taste. Set in 1970’s someone is killing the cast and crew of a gay porn movie being produced by its slightly deranged, and recently dumped, lesbian boss Anne Pareze played by a very excitable and impassioned Vanessa Paradis. This intriguing soft-porn farce is both funny and baffling and if you like weird movies (like we do) then you’ll love this one.
LIGHT IN THE WATER : LIS BARTLETT’S debut feature documentary is an affectionate look back at how the legendary West Hollywood Swim Club started back in the early 1980’s and survived some both turbulent and very successful times to morph into being WEST HOLLYWOOD AQUATICS TEAM – WHO ALSO GO BY “WH2O” The film is an important reminder of the crucial part that LGBT organisations like this have been in the shaping of our history, and how as a community we are so good at sticking together through the good and bad times. A sheer joy.
MAKING MONTGOMERY CLIFT; This is the film that all MONTGOMERY CLIFT fans have waited for since his death at the far too early age of 45, and also the one to introduce to millenials who have never had joy of knowing of his existence, This wonderful queer actor, one of the most handsome Hollywood stars ever, has been the subject of so much scandalous and misleading sensationalism that has overlooked actual real facts that he may have made only 20 movies. but he was actually nominated for an Oscar for his performance in 4 of them.
SOCRATES: Life is tough enough for Socrates (CHRISTIAN MALHEIROS) and his single-parent mother as they struggled to eak out a living in their small shabby apartment in Baixada Santista one of the rougher ghettos of São Paulo. Then she suddenly dies and the 15 year old is left to fend for himself This wonderfully touching drama is the story of his struggle for life and love
THE BLONDE ONE : Argentinian gay auteur MARCO BERGER with a string of very successful moves to his name again shows his remarkable talent for sheer homoeroticism but also the skillful way he allows this sensual and touching relationship unfold at such a gentle place. Thanks also to his two lead actors compelling and very touching performances we get totally immersed in their relationship even though there is always the uncertainty it will survive when its discovered by the outside.
