French
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews the award-winning Block Pass, a dramatic coming-of age tale set in semi-rural France.
Handsome (inside and out) nineteen-year-old best friends Willy (Sayyid El Alami) and Jojo (Amaury Foucher) spend all their time together. The childhood friends live in semi-rural western France near Angers. There they immerse themselves in the colourful local motocross scene, and along with their rowdy bunch of friends, also get up to all the usual…
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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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Re-release of ‘OLIVIA’ from 1951 : hothouse lesbian passion in an upper class French girls school
As it is Film Fest time, all of Queerguru’s team of reviewers are knee deep in (hopefully the best) new queer cinema as they flit around the Globe so we can share with you what’s hot. And what’s not. Its also very important to us that we keep an eye over our shoulders to see…
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Alain Delon a cultural and cinematic leading man of the 20th century has died aged 88
Alain Delon who died this week was acknowledged as a cultural and cinematic leading man of the 20th century. Delon emerged as one of the foremost European actors of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, and became an international sex symbol. Although totally heterosexual he became a symbolic icon for the the queer community which…
