Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideJacques Audiard has followed his 2009 masterpiece, the multi-award winning ‘A Prophet’ with an intense exhilarating emotional roller coaster of a movie that has you sitting right on the edge of your seat throughout the entire 2 hours. Just as you think that life cannot get any worse for the two protagonists, it does … … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideBeing a big-city boy I always think that any movie set in the midst of desolate windswept landscape must be in the middle of nowhere. This one is literally. The body in this murder mystery is found in a small stretch of ‘No Mans Land’ between the borders of Switzerland and France. The nearest small … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThere is always a trigger point as to why I select the movies that I go see. Either a favorite actor, or its the work of a revered auteur, or simply a recommendation from another cinephile. When it comes to Leo Carax’s latest movie it was simply a critic’s review in the final clip of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThere should be a warning given to anyone over a certain age (like me) before they see this powerfully uncomfortable and uncompromising movie about an elderly couple that makes you confront the unavoidable consequences of all the suffering that one must deal with before finally shuffling off this mortal coil. And certainly one should definitely … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFrom its pedigree alone this movie should have been completely wonderful. Directed and penned by award-winning actor/director Bruno Podalydes and with a cast of that was like a veritable who’s who of French Cinema it had all the hallmarks of a sure-fire hit instead of the reality of the total dud it actually turned out … Continue reading
