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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews the genius of artist AI Weiwei as he directs unique production of Puccini’s TURANDOT
The Chinese contemporary artist in a dialogue with Giacomo Puccini‘s unfinished last work, a behind the scenes and beyond at Teatro Dell´Opera di Roma, are the subjects of this documentary film directed by Maxim Derevianko, based on a story written by Michele Cogo and Maxim Derevianko. From Ai Weiwei is said to be the most powerful…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews the award-winning Block Pass, a dramatic coming-of age tale set in semi-rural France.
Handsome (inside and out) nineteen-year-old best friends Willy (Sayyid El Alami) and Jojo (Amaury Foucher) spend all their time together. The childhood friends live in semi-rural western France near Angers. There they immerse themselves in the colourful local motocross scene, and along with their rowdy bunch of friends, also get up to all the usual…
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Queerguru reviews EXIT INTERVIEWS when you get to find out what went wrong (or right)
Being a displaced Brit here in the US is one continuous learning curve, trying to learn and adapt to American practices. Joining that list now is ‘Exit Interviews’, which my trusty Oxford English Dictionary explains is a survey conducted with an individual who is separating from an organization or relationship …. a kind of ‘what…
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Queerguru’s own Robert (Malcolm) reviews THE TWO ROBERTS that captures the lives + relationship of two of Britain’s greatest painters
Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun—queer, working-class, Scottish artists and lovers—lived defiantly together at a time when homosexuality was a crime. In The Two Roberts, Damian Barr reimagines their relationship from their meeting at the Glasgow School of Art in 1933 until Colquhoun’s early death in 1962 at the age of 47. Barr sees MacBryde as…
