Tag: coming of age
Moonlight
Moonlight is probably the most exquisite and understated LGBT coming of age story to hit our screens for years. Light on plot and even sparse on dialogue, it nevertheless packs a powerful punch showing the inner turmoil of an African/American youth coming to terms with his own sexuality as he grows up in one of…
Boys On Film 15 : Time & Tied
There is a really fine art and skill into curating compendiums of short movies, and it’s one that the programmers at Peccadillo Pictures, a major UK distributor of LGBT cinema, actually seem to get better at with every new edition of their celebrated Boys On Film Series. Their latest one no 15 : Time &…
Fair Haven
19 year old James’s (Michael Grant) reward for his long stint at a gay conversion therapy course run by religious zealots is not good news. On his return home he is greeted by his father (Tom Wopat) who forced him to go there in the first place, and he immediately learns that all his college fund money has…
Being 17
Veteran French filmmaker André Téchiné may be the wrong side of 70 now but he shows in his latest movie that he still has a very firm grasp of the sensibilities of teenage boys coming of age. He is perfectly assisted by his co-writer Céline Sciamma the writer/director of quintessential adolescent gay movies such as Tomboy and Girlhood. This is the…
From Afar
Middle-aged Armando (Alfredo Castro) is a rather solitary dental technician who cruises the streets of one of Caracas rougher neighborhood looking to pick up teenage boys. He is more of a voyeur than a fornicator as he lures them back to his apartment with a thick wad of cash just to have them undress whilst he…
