chinese
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews director Lan Hongchun’s acclaimed family drama ‘DEAR YOU’
Your face, long unseen; not a day goes by without longing… A story from the Far East dedicated to the predecessors becomes a visually stunning film that discloses lifelong acts of love and sacrifice. It takes several decades that evolve gradually, starting with the celebration of Ama´s birthday; the grandmother is in her 80s and…
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Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews “AS WE LIKE IT” a Taiwanese adaptation of Shakespeare with an all-female cast
Love flourishes no matter what in William Shakespeare´s As You Like It, a pastoral comedy from the early XVI Century. The play has been updated in a whimsical film with an entirely female cast and a kitsch touch. The directors dedicate their film to Shakespeare and to the patriarchy who would not allow female…
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Moneyboys : a powerful queer Chinese story of love, survival and acceptance
Since 1996 when East Palace, West Palace was the first Mainland Chinese movie with an explicitly homosexual theme was released, there have been very few films to follow its lead. Like with MONEYBOYS it is deemed too unsafe to make Chinese queer film actually in situ, so filmmakers such as Taiwan/Austrian C.B. Yi use…
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Utopians : NSFW
If you have ever watched any of the edgy movies made by the openly gay Chinese auteur filmmaker known simply as Scud, then you will know to expect a lot of full frontal nudity in his work. In this, his latest movie about to be released on DVD/VOD in the U.S., it’s actually easier to…
