Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAlex Strangelove is a gay teen comedy that thankfully is so much better than the squeaky clean over-sanitized rather drippy drama Love Simon that was loved by mainly teenage girls with the same passion that most gay men loathed it. For one thing, it’s rather raunchy and its protagonist Alex Truelove (Daniel Doheny) hasn’t yet … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesSwedish/Georgian filmmaker Levan Akin’s third film a heartbreaking coming-out-story is probably the first ever LGBT drama ever made in ultra-conservative Georgia. It quite rightly won over international audiences at the Cannes Film Festival early this year where it was nominated for a Queer Palm. This is the story of Merab (Levan Gelbakhiani) a student … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIn his new short movie, AUDIBLE filmmaker Matthew Ogens abandons us all so quickly. We are so totally engrossed in the story of his finely nuanced documentary that when it ends in 44 minutes we feel almost robbed. He makes it impossible for us not to feel so connected with his cast of deaf … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIt’s refreshing to find that filmmakers still have new LGBT coming-out stories that are fresh and throw a different perspective on what is inevitably a difficult rite-of-passage for most gay youth. For her sophomore feature writer/director Eliza Hittman sets her story in Brooklyn where 19 year-old Frankie (Harris Dickinson) is struggling hard to find his own identity, sexual … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesVeteran French filmmaker André Téchiné may be the wrong side of 70 now but he shows in his latest movie that he still has a very firm grasp of the sensibilities of teenage boys coming of age. He is perfectly assisted by his co-writer Céline Sciamma the writer/director of quintessential adolescent gay movies such as Tomboy and Girlhood. This is the … Continue reading