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Queerguru’s David Lagachu reviews ALL OUR FEARS that dares to hold religion accountable for suppressing the voice of the queer community
At the heart of All Our Fears is spirituality. The protagonist Daniel (Dawid Ogrodnik) is an artist, farmer, and most importantly a queer young man. He literally wears his queerness on his sleeves as his jacket proudly displays the rainbow colors. For the people of his village, he is a Satan-like figure who lures…
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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…
