Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideEli Dhrey is an insensitive boor. He’s a wealthy 60-year-old man who casually announces to his family that his much younger 2nd wife is pregnant, totally ignoring the distress of Dom his older married daughter who has desperately been trying to conceive for the past two years. His younger daughter Justine, a 27-year-old radiographer but … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideOne of the things I really liked about this quirky Gallic love story was that it was not about a flawlessly perfect beautiful young couple but rather about a painfully shy somewhat ordinary pair in their early/mid forties. It’s the sweet (literally) tale of Angelique a talented chocolatier who is so introvert that any small … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThomas is just 5 years old when his mother gives him up for adoption, and his younger brother Patrick is still a baby. But Thomas never forgets this rather wild woman who abandons them rather than trying to cope, and he never stops obsessing for one single moment about finding his mother again. The Jouvets … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis is the story of how Francois Sarkozy actually landed the job of the President of France, and it isn’t always a pretty tale. There is a bold announcement at the beginning of this feature film that states that this is BASED on events that happened as opposed to it being a factual account, and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideBased on a script by the late great Jacques Tati the French comic genius and directed by Sylvain Chomet (‘The Triplets of Belleville’) one knew that this film would have to be good. And probably even much better than that. And it was, and more. The story involves a sad lanky French magician named Tatischeff … Continue reading
