Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFor some unknown reason it took over 10 years to bring this biopic of one of the most significant singers in Portuguese music history to the big screen. António Variações was a larger than life powerful and controversial figure of his time, but to most of us this will probably be the first we … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFour friends (3 male & 1 female) escape Lisbon one sunny weekend and head to a luxurious villa in the remote countryside. This quartet with their ambiguous sexualities have been friends for the past decade held together by a rather tenuous past. They had all been lovers of the mysterious David and when he … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis biopic from filmmaker Vicente Alves do Ó is a fictionalized and highly dramatic account of a traumatic period in the life of the gay Portuguese Poet Alberto Raposo Pidwell Tavares who was universally known simply as Al Berto. It’s set in the mid-1970’s when a very young Al Berto (Ricardo Teixeira) has just returned home to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesYou really need to brush up your knowledge of the Portuguese Saint Anthony of Padua to appreciate writer/director João Pedro Rodrigues’s very queer take on the legend of his life. It is both surreal and provocative and demands a great deal of of patience from its audience when it strays off on confusing tangents. Fernando (Paul … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesSet in the 24 hours of Christmas Eve 1969 in a Portuguese Army Camp in a remote part of Mozambique where for some reason (that I sure I should remember from my history lessons) they are involved in a civil war. As night-time falls the ‘rebels’ attack the camp and as the soldiers lives are … Continue reading
