Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesEvelyn Marcus a Dutch Jew starts her documentary acknowledging about her extremely good fortune that both her parents, and their families, were Holocaust survivors. Growing up in a Amsterdam suburb as a comfortable middle class family in the post WW2 Years, the emphasis of the Marcus family was celebrating life to the fullest. This … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiques17 year old Jakob (Simon Frühwirth ) has just graduated high school and as it is the summer break his single-parent rather subdued father fixes him up with a temporary job at the abattoir he word at in town. The pair of them live in a isolated house in the country with Jacob’s elderly … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFor his feature film directorial debut Jonothon Mitchell has queered up everyone’s favorite childhood fairy story : Cinderella. In Mitchell’s take the heroine is a hero, albeit a ‘fairy’ one, who lives in the Deep South with his wicked step daddy and his two thuggish step-brothers who literally want to beat the life out of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe latest film from queer auteur Pedro Almodovar, Spain’s most influential award-winning filmmaker, sees him reunited with actor Antonio Banderas yet again, but also a very welcome return to a homoerotic theme that were so prevalent in his early work. This is the story of a successful but tormented filmmaker Salvador Mallo (played by … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe openly gay Irish writer/director John Butler follows his charming award-winning coming out tale Handsome Devil with an intriguing movie set in Los Angeles. It’s the story of a good-looking local TV weatherman Sean (Matt Bomer) who we first meet when he is having an on screen meltdown on live TV. His very understanding … Continue reading