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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews THE GODFATHER BUCK a story full of toxic masculinity
The Godfather Buck tells the intense story of two brothers and their family history. Dan (Frederick Keeve), 52 and his younger, very handsome, brother Steven Madden (Kyle Lowder), 35 meet once a year at their late father’s beautiful remote wooden cabin high up in the woods in Big Bear, California. They go there…
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Queerguru’s David Lagachu reviews PRIVATE DESERT a Brazilian queer drama that is about hopelessness and hope at the same time
The film opens with the protagonist Daniel (Antonio Saboia), a police officer, jogging in the middle of the night. The scene immediately highlights a sense of him running away from himself and the almost palpable loneliness. In the first half an hour of the film, the strong bond between Daniel and his ex-police officer…
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Queerguru’s Richard Gilles is in raptures over Jacques Audiard’s ‘Paris 13th District’
Jacques Audiard’s 13th District is a strange, fascinating movie, with the definite touch of a great film director, a mysterious painting set in dreamy aesthetics, a shadow floating through the light, a black and white journey between Love, Lust, and Lightness. 13th District is the photography of bursting new lives, of young human…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews TOWARDS HAPPINESS an Italian queer drama where happiness maybe in Drag
Towards Happiness is director Paola Cipolletta’s drama about living life rather than just surviving it. Andrea (Francesco Di Leva) is a 40-year-old account manager and lives a rather mundane life in Naples with his wife Lucia (Miriam Candurro), a call center worker, and their ten-year-old son, Tommaso (Giuseppe Pirozzi). Their marriage is not going…
