Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThere should be a warning given to anyone over a certain age (like me) before they see this powerfully uncomfortable and uncompromising movie about an elderly couple that makes you confront the unavoidable consequences of all the suffering that one must deal with before finally shuffling off this mortal coil. And certainly one should definitely … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideSeong-jun may have arrived, but he actually has nowhere to go. This film-director is back in Seoul after he suddenly retreated to live in a remote country town the moment the last of his four movies were finished. He’s here for a few days to hang out with his friend Young-ho a film critic but … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideChristophe Honore’s rather baffling epic-length drama covers the time span between the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia and the 9/11 attacks and against this background world-changing events the story is simply about two women who tried desperately to be loved. Young Madeleine discovers the way to pay for the expensive fancy shoes she coverts at the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn Andre Zvyagintsev’s rather somber movie set in modern-day Moscow its painfully clear that despite all its fine principles post Soviet Russia is simply just another society where the ‘have’ and the ‘have not’s’ bitterly resent each other. The wealthy have greatly profited from the new capitalism whilst the poor are finding it difficult to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThirtysomething Laurence is a very successful and popular high school teacher, and loves his girlfriend Fred and their very full and happy life together in Montreal. Yet despite all that he has going for him he always has a perpetual nagging sensation that something is amiss. Deep down he has always really known that essentially he feels … Continue reading
