Tag: BFI Flare
AIDS DIVA The Legend of Connie Norman
In the second half of the last Century when the LGBTQ community found its very survival was at risk, even at its darkest moments there was usually also a bright beacon of light and hope. As the AIDS pandemic devastated us indiscriminately in the 1980’s most of us felt overwhelmed and helpless, but there…
Queerguru @BFI Flare : SWEETHEART
Throw aside any expectations that Marly Morrison’s Sweetheart will be an achingly Gen Z teen zeitgeist movie and embrace the fact that it belongs to the classic British genre of sexually awkward teen meets nightmare seaside family holiday. Go with it because that is what makes its humiliating inevitability so sweet. April Jane or AJ…
Queerguru @BFI Flare : JUMP, DARLING ….. Cloris Leachman’s exquisite swan song
When you reach the end of the road you are on, what can you do? There are two answers, you stop or change direction. In Cloris Leachman’s final film made prior to her death, both these alternates are explored, and the poignancy is inescapable. Leachman plays Grams, the aging grandmother grown tired, frail, and distanced…
Queerguru @BFI Flare : FIREBIRD a tale of life, love and loss
Firebird is an enormously satisfying and complete film. It tells a full tale of life, and love and loss from its beginning right up to an end that could never need or want a sequel. Peeter Rebane‘s story of two Soviet military recruits, a pilot officer and a private, falling in love on a military base…
Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews BOY MEETS BOY
Warning: This film contains penetration of social bubbles, unsanitized hands, and explicit bare facing. It is for fantasy purposes only. In Daniel Sanchez Lopez’s Boy Meets Boy two gay men meet each other on the dancefloor in Berlin after 24 hours of clubbing. At first, it’s the hazy intimacy of drugs that brings them together…
