romantic comedy
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Spinnin’
This exuberant and highly watchable debut film from director/writer/editor Eusebio Pastrana is essentially about a gay couple who struggle to fulfill their dream of having a child, but its actually more a story about his utopian vision of a world in which all couples, whether gay, straight, or in between, can live happily within the full spectrum…
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What Happens Next
Paul Greco is an uptight wealthy 50-year-old unmarried man who has just made a killing by selling off the Company he owned and ran and is now at a loose end as to what to do with all his free time. His hyper interfering sister gets him a dog to take for walks in the…
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Romeos
There are all sorts of ‘Romeos’ in this very innovative and somewhat daring tale about gender identity that is about how very tough it can be just being one’s self. The setting is a couple of dormitories in Koln, Germany where young adults are based to do a year of social studies. The film…
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Let My People Go
Exactly who the people that need to be freed in this mildly amusing comic farce is never really made clear. Could it be Jews, or the Homosexuals, or the French or even the Finnish? There are a multitude of stereotypes in this rather convoluted comedy written by Christophe Honore who I am now beginning to realize is a…
