love story
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Fairytale : a delightful Italian queer absurdist comedy
This delightfully eccentric queer Italian comedy is from married couple writer Sebastiano Mauri making his directing debut and starring his husband and co-writer Filippo TImi. Fairytale is adapted from a theatrical production of the same name which Timi also wrote and starred in and which premièred in 2011 to great acclaim. This last point is…
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Top 3: Animated romcom is radically mainstreaming
And so we come to the closing movie of the Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Fest 2019 with a seemingly odd choice that is radically hetero normcore. And we like it. There is absolutely nothing queer about Top 3, other than it is a romantic comedy between two men. A lot of the output of…
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Bittersweet Waters : Being in love & true to oneself in rural Mexico
Chicago based Jesús Canchola Sánchez’s hauntingly beautiful film is one of the most impressive LGBTQ feature film debuts we have seen in a very long time.. Most of the credit goes to Sánchez who not only wrote and directed it, but he also produced and starred in it too. As the title hints, this…
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A Gay Mormon Love Story
This short and oh-so-touching-video published by the New York Times is the real life story of Tom Clark, who talks about falling hopelessly in love as a young, gay Mormon missionary in 1974. Brought up in a strict Mormon family, Clark was indoctrinated with all their classic rampant homophobic beliefs that all gay men…
