Road To Love : may not always be straight
From 2001 comes this queer tale from French filmmaker Rémi Lange about an Arab sociology student at the Sorbonne in Paris who decides to make a documentary about homosexuality as his class project. Karim (Karim Tarek) lives in the small top floor apartment with his girlfriend Sihem (Sihem Benamoune). She thinks butter melts in … Continue reading
Rocketman : Elton John enjoys a moment of self love
Rocketman, the tumultuous story of spangly superstar Elton John is a biography, a musical and a showcase of his back catalogue. A failure at one of them is saved by an outstanding achievement in the other two. Reginald Dwight (Taron Egerton) born a suburban nobody, changes his name to Elton John and leaves behind … Continue reading
Romeo Romeo
When New Yorker Lexy met the woman of her dreams she just wanted two things (apart from living happily ever after, naturally.) Lexy wanted to have a big white wedding and then have a baby. In this micro-budgeted wee fly-on-wall documentary from filmmaker Lizzie Gottlieb we learn that Lexy and her wife Jessica celebrated their … Continue reading
Romeos
There are all sorts of ‘Romeos’ in this very innovative and somewhat daring tale about gender identity that is about how very tough it can be just being one’s self. The setting is a couple of dormitories in Koln, Germany where young adults are based to do a year of social studies. The film … Continue reading
Romeu & Romeu
A very young set of Brazilian filmmakers have very loosely adapted Shakespeare’s classic love-story Romeo & Juliet and made it a contemporary queer romantic drama. This web series was also set in the fictional Italian city of Verona, and is now where the Campelos and Monteiros families have vehemently hated each other for generations after … Continue reading