Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis feel-good French fairy story with its funny hybrid title is about a pair of ‘untouchables’. One is Philipe a very wealthy Parisian aristocrat who is now paralyzed from the neck down after a paragliding accident, and the other is Driss an African immigrant newly released from jail and living in the projects who unwittingly … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis is the implausible true story about a young dark French man passing himself off as a blond American teenager who had been missing for some years. I actually remember reading this story in The New Yorker a while back and was flabbergasted then, but now seeing the whole scenario skillfully re-enacted on the big … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis is an old fashioned coming-out story in which a 40 year old married man and father of two finally accepts his sexuality but by trying so hard to please everyone, no-one ends up happy at all. Based on an autobiographical novel by acclaimed New Zealand novelist Witi Ihumaera (‘The Whale Rider’) that the author … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAlbert, the Duke of York, was the 2nd son of King George V and as a Naval Officer and husband and father with two young children he enjoyed a calm and privileged life and the freedom that came with not being the Heir to the British Throne. That all changed suddenly with the unexpected death … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAn obscure and difficult to watch movie about an obscure and difficult to read poet. It’s the brief life of Hart Crane a poet and writer well regarded by his peers but who was one very unhappy homosexual who took his own life in 1932 when he was mere 33 years old. In his short … Continue reading
