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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews GIRL PICTURE @ the Opening Night Gala at BFI Flare 2022
BFI Flare 2022 London’s biggest and best LGBTQ+ film festival starts today and its opening gala night film turns the phrase a hot mess into a crown of pride. Girl Picture throws a bucket of emotions into the air and seems them beautifully land a la Jackson Pollock on a canvas of Finnish adolescent sexuality.…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden’s first ☆☆☆☆☆ review of 2022 is for PASSION FRUIT
Passion Fruit (our first 5-star threesome of 2022) New Diorama Theatre, London Some young performers have to write their own pieces in order to give themselves work. In Passion Fruit Dior Clarke, and co-writer Stephanie Martin may have written themselves a career. The New Diorama Theatreis hidden amongst the corporate tower blocks…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah is spellbound by David Hoyle’s queer reimagining of Ibsen’s HEDDA
Hedda (after Ibsen) is the cinematic, theatrical, queer re-imagining of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s classic play from 1891, Hedda Gabler. Created, written, and directed by Jen Heyes, the play stars the UK’s avant-garde, national treasure, David Hoyle. This 21st Century interpretation of the play takes us on an hour’s journey into a sad, slightly…
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Queerguru’s Richard Gilles film review reveals that this was NOT Nicolas Maury’s Best Part
Queer actor and filmmaker Nicolas Maury was discovered internationally thanks to his role as an extroverted assistant in Call My Agent, the infamous series based in Paris about actors’ frantic agents. My Best Part is his directorial debut and he also plays the main lead, an openly gay, oversensitive, troubled actor reaching his 40s,…
