Tag: lesbian
Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews “Maybe Someday” a story about new beginnings
This fiction film was inspired by the real-life story of the director Michelle Ehlen when her relationship fell apart. A discontent Jay (Michelle Ehlen) says goodbye to her wife Lily (Jeneen Robinson), who has been honest about an infidelity that Jay cant deal with. She needs to detach and time to heal so she decides to…
Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews GIRL PICTURE @ the Opening Night Gala at BFI Flare 2022
BFI Flare 2022 London’s biggest and best LGBTQ+ film festival starts today and its opening gala night film turns the phrase a hot mess into a crown of pride. Girl Picture throws a bucket of emotions into the air and seems them beautifully land a la Jackson Pollock on a canvas of Finnish adolescent sexuality.…
Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews “Nelly and Nadine “: the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944
The film captured me from the beginning; a sequence of a newsreel from April 28th, 1945 shot at Malmö Harbor, Sweden, in which a large group of women reaches freedom after German concentration camps. We see them smile and say hello to the camera, there is Nadine with her white scarf, striped uniform,…
Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews “AS WE LIKE IT” a Taiwanese adaptation of Shakespeare with an all-female cast
Love flourishes no matter what in William Shakespeare´s As You Like It, a pastoral comedy from the early XVI Century. The play has been updated in a whimsical film with an entirely female cast and a kitsch touch. The directors dedicate their film to Shakespeare and to the patriarchy who would not allow female…
Dakota Johnson Brings it in Tig Notaro’s “Am I OK?” by Queerguru’s Janet Prolman @Sundance
I’ve just returned from Park City, Utah, and my first Sundance experience (virtual, of course), and I have good news to share. Tig Notaro and her wife, Stephanie Allynne, have co-directed a female buddy “rom-com” for our times. They have elicited strong performances, most notably from Dakota Johnson as the lead character, Lucy, a…
