romance

  • Queerguru reviews ON THE FRINGE OF WILD a poignant tale of young queer love

    Queerguru reviews ON THE FRINGE OF WILD a poignant tale of young queer love

        On The Fringe of Wild, the feature film debut of director Emma Catalfamo and writer Sorelle Doucet  is a contemporary coming-out-tale set in the outbacks of Ontario where time and rampant homophobia have seemingly stood still.  It is a very sharp reminder that even in 2021 life is still made unbearable for LGBTQ…

  • Queerguru reviews  MASCARPONE  a delectable Italian queer dramedy

    Queerguru reviews MASCARPONE a delectable Italian queer dramedy

      The opening scenes of Mascarpone, a new queer dramady  from co-directors Alessandro Guida and Matteo Pilati, is set to send shivers down the backs of quite a few gay men in long-term relationships. A rather oblivious Antonio (Giancarlo Commare) is abruptly told by his long-time husband Lorenzo (Carlo Calderone) that their marriage is over as…

  • Summer of 85 : Ozon’s bittersweet queer teen romance

    Summer of 85 : Ozon’s bittersweet queer teen romance

      The queer French auteur François Ozon turns to a very English novel for the source of his latest bittersweet romance.  Evidently, he read Aidan Chambers’s 1982 novel Dance on My Grave. when he was a teenager and this story of teen angst must have really resounded deeply with him that almost four decades later…

  • Queerguru @BFI Flare : FIREBIRD a tale of life, love and loss

    Queerguru @BFI Flare : FIREBIRD a tale of life, love and loss

    Firebird is an enormously satisfying and complete film. It tells a full tale of life, and love and loss from its beginning right up to an end that could never need or want a sequel.  Peeter Rebane‘s story of two Soviet military recruits, a pilot officer and a private, falling in love on a military base…