drama
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The Heiresses
Life seems to have taken a turn for the worse for this elderly Paraguayan lesbian couple who have been together for 30 years and always enjoyed a life of comfortable luxury. Now with Chiquita (Margarita Irun) the more worldly of the pair about to go off to jail after being charged with fraud, there is…
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Sorry Angel
Following hot on the heels of BPM Beats Per Minute the powerful seminal French Aids movie that swept up every major César Award and at Cannes too last year, comes a new film from queer French auteur Christophe Honoré that tells a heartbreaking story from that same period. His movie is set in 1993 before the introduction…
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He Loves Me
This somewhat surprising Greek/LGBT film has no dialogue, very little in the way of plot but is poetic and a sensuous account of a relationship that is trying to survive. The two young men leave the city and hitch hike to a deserted beach on the isle of Crete hoping that the peaceful and…
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Shoplifters
Writer/director Hirokazu Koreeda’s extraordinary and brilliant new film about a disparate Japanese makeshift family may start in a gentle and slightly confusing manner, but by the time the final credits role you will be totally engrossed in the movie that won the prestigious Palme d’Or at Cannes last summer. The family live crammed into a small dilapidated…
