French
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Love Me Tender, a beautiful, poignant French drama. Unmissable.
The raw brutality of a vicious child custody battle is laid bare in Love Me Tender, director Anna Cazenave Cambert’s adaptation of Constance Debre’s 2020 novel. Premiering at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Love Me Tender is based on Debre’s real-life experiences of being a French lawyer turned bohemian author who loses custody of her…
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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…
