Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe first words we hear in the movie’s opening scene are “I should never have left my country!‘ They are uttered slowly with great sadness by Moncef a 60 year man of Middle-Eastern origin. He and his family have ended up as immigrants in Paris far from home and he is desperate to insure that … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideBlond thirty-something year old Ingrid has lost her sight abruptly to an undiagnosed condition and now, depressed and unsettled, she just whiles away in the stark white high rise apartment in Oslo that she shares with Morton her architect husband. She refuses to ever venture outside at all and actually suspects that Morton actually sneaks back … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWriter/director Alexandre Moore takes on the impossible task of making a narrative that asserts to tell a rather tragic true story of some senseless needless violence without giving an emotional element to the perpetrators of the crime. The facts of the ‘Beltway Shootings’ by the ‘DC Snipers’ where John Muhammed and Lee Malvo went on … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideLast January at my first Sundance I discovered movie fatigue. Well, that’s what I thought at the time when I came out of a screening of ‘Blue Valentine’ extremely under whelmed, yet seemingly everyone else there was raving (!) about the film. Flash forward to now when the movie is on the big screen at the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideYoung Bubbs needs to up sticks and leave his small coastal town if he is ever to live his own life. He still lives with his embittered mother Mary who is obsessed with the fact that every man in her life always runs out on her and she is on Bubbs case constantly, and … Continue reading