Queerguru reviews SAINT LAURENT with a pitch perfect Gaspard Ulliel
Yves St Laurent, indisputably one of the finest fashion designers and couturiers of the last century, is again the focus of another major movie picture that is as much about as his wild and wicked ways off the catwalk than the creations that he sent down it every season. Following fast on the heels … Continue reading
Saint Maud : a skin clawing creeper
For the very first time Andrew Hebden one of QUEERGURU’s London team has literally moved into London’s South Bank for the next 2 weeks to cover the prestigious BFI London Film Festival . He’ll be reviewing not just all the excellent queer films screening there but movies he thinks will appeal to the whole … Continue reading
SAINT NARCISSE from queer auteur Bruce La Bruce
A new film from the Canadian queer auteur Bruce La Bruce is always an event. We are careful not to include him as part of the wave of new queer cinema that the leading Film scholar Ruby B Rich first recognized. LaBruce is one of the leaders of the queercore movement which is. noted … Continue reading
Salvation Army aka L’Armee Du Salut
Abdellah is a young teenager who lives with his poor large family in an overcrowded small house in Casablanca. He spends his days helping his sisters doing household chores at the behest of his mother who seems perpetually angry with him. Her bad-tempered-ness could be because as he is male she associates him closely with … Continue reading
Seahorse : The Dad Who Gave Birth
Jeanie Finlay’s simpatico documentary about Freddy McConnell a determined Brit trans man who wants to give birth is a remarkable testament of faith by McConnell in allowing the cameras to film every part of his extraordinary journey. To avoid the story becoming the slightest bit sensationalized McConnell had assembled his own crew to be … Continue reading