Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideLife after Lucia dies in a fatal car accident is tough on her husband Roberto and teenage daughter Alejandra, and to help deal with their heartbreak and grief they up sticks and leave their family home in Puerto Vallarta to start a new life in Mexico City. Roberto is a chef and plans to start his … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe opening scenes of this movie pulls you up sharp. On the screen there is a distraught young woman lying in a hospital bed hooked up to an oxygen machine and desperately pleading to the visitor we cannot see. She simply keeps begging ‘Bury them in Morocco. Tell their father, bury them in Morocco.’ And … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThirtysomething Laurence is a very successful and popular high school teacher, and loves his girlfriend Fred and their very full and happy life together in Montreal. Yet despite all that he has going for him he always has a perpetual nagging sensation that something is amiss. Deep down he has always really known that essentially he feels like … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn the opening sequences using grainy footage from onlookers cellphones we see how this story is going to end. Not long after 2009 has just been welcomed in by this happy boisterous New Year crowd travelling on the BART train in Oakland, California when Oscar Grant, a 22 year old African-American is shot in the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIf I had to summarize Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu’s latest movie in one word, it would unhesitatingly be ‘bleak’. From the isolated Monastery with no running water or electricity nestling in the hills beyond a remote village where even the summers look cold and uninviting, to the plot which is about an ex-orphanage girl who … Continue reading
