Tag: love story
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,…
You Make Me Weak at the Knees : a film by Joseph Wilson
With Valentine’s Day around the corner, we are reminded that it’s not just about celebrating by those within society’s perception of the norm of romantic love, but all of us somewhere on the spectrum You Make Me Weak at the Knees is a new narrative by the brilliant East London queer indie filmmaker Joseph…
Moneyboys : a powerful queer Chinese story of love, survival and acceptance
Since 1996 when East Palace, West Palace was the first Mainland Chinese movie with an explicitly homosexual theme was released, there have been very few films to follow its lead. Like with MONEYBOYS it is deemed too unsafe to make Chinese queer film actually in situ, so filmmakers such as Taiwan/Austrian C.B. Yi use…
Great Freedom : one man’s story about being imprisoned in Germany for decades for being gay
Germany’s pernicious Paragraph 1675, was part of the German Criminal Code from 15 May 1871 to 10 March 1994. It made homosexual acts between males a crime, and in early revisions, the provision also criminalized bestiality as well as forms of prostitution and underage sexual abuse. All in all, around 140,000 men were convicted under the…
I Carry You With Me : an epic ‘against all odds’ queer love story
There are probably very few of us that could have our love tested relentlessly over decades and survive. Unlike this epic-length romance between two gay Mexican men who had to deal with a seemingly never-ending onslaught of issues of culture, country, and laws but still have you gripping your seat in fear that it…
