Tag: coming of age
MOFFIE : a harrowing coming-of-age tale
The fact that ‘moffie’ is the South African equivalent of ‘faggot’ sets the tone for one of the most harrowing coming-of-age films we have ever seen. It is set in South Africa in 1981 in the midst of apartheid where the white minority still dominate and persecute the ‘colored’ population. They however are not…
BOOKSMART : a superb coming-of-age tale with rising star Beanie Feldstein
Queer actress Beanie Feldstein, the younger sibling of actor Jonah Hill, had a recent stint appearing in Hello Dolly on Broadway in the shadows of Bette Midler, but after her stunning breakthrough performance in Booksmart she is bound to always be upfront and center from now on. A star is really born. Feldstein plays …
And Then We Danced : before falling in love
Swedish/Georgian filmmaker Levan Akin’s third film a heartbreaking coming-out-story is probably the first ever LGBT drama ever made in ultra-conservative Georgia. It quite rightly won over international audiences at the Cannes Film Festival early this year where it was nominated for a Queer Palm. This is the story of Merab (Levan Gelbakhiani) a student…
DUST : Nowhere to run from awkward memories
Dust’s coming of age story is not the polished instagram version of puberty. It is as naïve, bare and unedited as a teens sexted video. Dust compellingly captures the exact moments between adult hood and childhood when the familiar people, places and bodies of earlier years no longer fit together. Painful as a pimple…
Love Blooms aka L’amour debout : a movie grown without purpose or plot
In one symbolic scene in this French sub titled movie the characters, fueled by curiosity, determinedly follow a sleep walker to find out where he is going. It turns out he is not sleepwalking he is just out for the pleasure of a stroll in the garden. If that is all that is wanted from…
