Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAgnieszka Holland’s biographical tale of a Czech herbal expert who makes a living diagnosing patients by their urine samples may not exactly be everyone’s cup of pee at first. However barely submerged within it is a commentary on the suffocating totalitarian regime it happens under and a pointed statement that supposedly absurd practices supported by … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe fact that this film ever got made is a real achievement in itself is something of miracle/breakthrough. To our knowledge, this is only the 2nd queer movie to come out of Romania. The first was Beyond The Hills, which when we reviewed it in 2013, we found overwhelmingly bleak. Poppy Field, the debut … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFor those of us who might be outrageously, but fairly, accused of being more interested in mentioning that we have read Truman Capote or Tennesse Williams than actually reading them, this is the perfect documentary. Its mixture of biography, gossip, observations, and anecdotes in their famously distinct voices conveys a sense of both their … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIf a movie sets out to arouse disgust and successfully achieves it does that make it a successful movie? While Queerguru is still musing on that one we can confidently affirm that our normal movie accompaniment of popcorn and diet coke was pushed to one side pretty quick in this nightmarish 90 minutes by Gem … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFor her latest feature film, Spanish queer filmmaker Ruth Caudeli continues with her fixation with ‘navel-gazing’ which was the topic of her sophomore movie Second Star On The Right. Leading Ladies, filmed in Colombia, is the tale of five young women who have gathered together for a celebratory dinner for one of their number … Continue reading
