Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesArgentinian director’s Rodrigo Guerrero’s second feature is a very slight and charming tale about a one night stand that may change a young man’s outlook on life and love. We first see 22 year old near-naked Fede at his laptop on a chatline talking to Franco The conversation soon gets very intimate and graphic … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis intriguing autobiographical wee film helmed by Egyptian/American filmmaker Sam Abbas who wrote, directed and starred in it, is full of promise which sadly is often over-shadowed by the movie’s rather deadpan and flat production. Abbas plays Rami living in New York’s Lower East Side with his fiance Sara (Nikohl Boosheri) who is anxious to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesSet in 1856 this slow-burning drama is mostly as bleak as the wild Frontier it is set in. It opens with a throughly depressed Abigail (Katherine Waterson) reading aloud in voiceover . “This morning, ice in our bedroom for the first time all winter,” and you really feel the cold as she speaks. She … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesUnderstanding the rites of passage for other cultures other than one’s own is often tough, but this new movie, the debut feature from white South African filmmaker John Trengove, focuses on an African tribal ritual that seems positively unbearable, and nigh on impossible to understand. Shot in a remote part of his country, it is the story … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIt is somewhat of a totally unexpected revelation when the explicit sex that lasts a full 20 minutes at the start of this extraordinarily wonderful new French queer movie and then surprisingly turns into this rather tender and delightful tale of love-at-first-sight between these two cute young guys. The action is initially set in a dungeon-like … Continue reading