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We are still waiting for François Ozon’s brilliant new movie THE STRANGER to be released in the US
Any new film from the French queer auteur François Ozon is a major event for the Queerguru team. He is considered one of the most important directors in the new “New Wave” in French cinema, along with Jean-Paul Civeyrac, Philippe Ramos, and Yves Caumon We have been following his work, since his Fassbinder adaptation Water Drops on Burning Rocks (Gouttes d’eau sur…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews “THE PLAGUE ” the award-winning debut from Charlie Poliger
This is the debut feature film of writer-director Charlie Polinger, with the perfect casting of Rebecca Dealy, and the collaboration of cinematographer Steven Breckon, sound designer Damien Volpe and composer Johan Lenox, which makes this feature film on boyhood at a water polo camp in the Summer of 2003 an enthralling experience to watch. 12-13…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews After The Hunt, a thought-provoking psychological drama by Luca Guadagnino, starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri. Andrew Garfield. + Chloe Sevigny
America’s Ivy League universities have always been a hotbed of intellectual activity and energy. The close concentration of thousands of supremely intelligent people of different incomes, races, generations, and motives can have positive and negative consequences. Yale University philosophy professor Alma (Julia Roberts) experiences this in After The Hunt, a thought-provoking, psychological drama by director-of-the-moment…
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Queerguru reviews THE BINDING a tense erotic queer thriller from Israel from Eyal Kantor and Yoav Keren
The Binding is a tense erotic queer thriller from Israel that unashamedly starts off with an explicit sex scene that sets the pace for the next 90 minutes. Directed by Eyal Kantor and co-written with his life partner Yoav Keren who also stars as its frequently naked lead Binyamin and who we first see…
