drama
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Queerguru’s David Lagachu reviews Antony Hickling’s award winning ‘DOWN IN PARIS’ & now wants to take the first flight to France
It is impossible to overlook the influence of Federico Fellini’s 8½ in especially in the surreal bits of the film when reality and illusion collide to make way for a dazzling humane effect. A middle-aged film director wandering about in a glamourous city looking for inspiration and facing his demons head-on is a cinematic trope…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ODD FISH a beautiful, and rare, queer film from Iceland
Queer storytelling is constantly evolving in the right direction, and it’s been good to see the latest crop of new films increasingly focus on queer life in smaller towns and villages around the world rather than the more obvious big urban centres. Another welcome development, particularly for trans characters, is for the queer story not…
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Queerguru reviews Jacquline Bisset in her best performance for years in LOREN & ROSE
The 80-year-old British actress Jacquline Bisset has always been a bit of an enigma. She made her fair share of Hollywood movies but it’s the films she made in Europe that really made a star . Francois Truffot’s Academy Award winning Day for Night, Le Magnifique with co-star Jean Paul Belmondo : her Cesar…
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Queerguru reviews the World Premiere of CACTUS PEAR : a heartfelt journey of discovery in rural India
At its height in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the British Empire was the largest in history and, for a century, was the foremost global power. At its peak, they held sway over 412 million people, 23 percent of the world population at the time, and by 1920, it covered 35.5 million km…
