Tag: coming of age
Heartstone
You can actually count on one hand the number of LGBT movies that have been made in Iceland over the years, and this promising debut from newcomer Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson is a very welcome addition to the group. Set in a remote and somewhat barren part of the country with some very dramatic vistas, it’s the tale…
Handsome Devil
Writer/director John Butler’s enchanting coming-of-age movie about two very likable 16-year-old boys in an Irish Boarding School seems to sidestep some of the grittier aspects of homophobia to ensure that the end result is an engagingfeel-good movie that the LGBT community is bound to make it into one of the more popular hits of…
Jesús
Despite several very disquieting factors about Chilean filmmaker Fernando Guzzoni’s story about a dysfunctional father/son relationship, the drama does nevertheless make for compelling viewing. For most of the week 18 year old Jesús (Nicolás Durán) is left alone to his own devices in Santiago whilst his father (Alejandro Goic ) is away working, and rather than go to school or…
Beach Rats : first peak at the steamy new LGBT movie
One of the most talked about and critically acclaimed LGBT films of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, was BEACH RATS which is a gritty, dark and dreamy story about the sexual awakening of a Brooklyn teenager. It centers on Frankie (stunning Brit newcomer Harris Dickinson), an aimless youth on the outer edges of Brooklyn, struggling to escape his…
Center of My World
When German high-schooler Phil (Louis Hoffman) returns from summer camp he is greeted so enthusiastically by his mother Glass (Sabine Timoteo) and his best friend Kat (Svenja Jung) as if he’d been away for much longer than just three weeks. We soon discover however that both these women tend to act melodramatically over almost every…
