French
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ROMAIN BERGER : Every Picture Tells A Story
Queer French photographer ROMAIN BERGER is QUEERGURU”S latest (and favorite) discovery …… although if the truth be told it was he who found us first! We immediately fell in love with his portfolio of extraordinarily wonderful work, especially his series of Tableau images: every picture tells a story. The 33-year-old lives in Rennes, the…
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Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews the French queer drama ‘ DON’T LOOK DOWN’
In one night full of intriguing glances in a very small apartment with a glorious of Paris, four gay men and a woman get along and learn a little of each other while. Their being together has a specific purpose and one that bounds them all. The viewer gets hints by some action off-camera, since…
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The Divine Josephine : a queer star and hero gets a final Honor
France is finally awarding the American-born cabaret dancer, French World War II spy, and civil rights activist JOSEPHINE BAKER an honor she so deserves. She will be the first Black woman to be awarded a place in the Pantheon monument overlooking the Left Bank of Paris. the final resting place of France’s most revered…
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Summer of 85 : Ozon’s bittersweet queer teen romance
The queer French auteur François Ozon turns to a very English novel for the source of his latest bittersweet romance. Evidently, he read Aidan Chambers’s 1982 novel Dance on My Grave. when he was a teenager and this story of teen angst must have really resounded deeply with him that almost four decades later…
