Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesLest there be any doubt we should start by saying that his new movie from French director Etienne Faure truly deserves its title more than any other cutting edge movie released on the fringes that we have seen this year. It is actually taken after the name of the Brooklyn Cabaret Club that 18-year-old Maurice … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAbdellatif Kechiche’s searingly beautiful story of two young women falling in and out of love with each other has got the Critics all riled up. Especially the heterosexual male ones who who have been almost unanimous in declaring this movie that includes long drawn out scenes of the most explicit lesbian sex as a ‘masterpiece’. … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis French made-for-TV movie written and directed by Christophe Charrier is an intriguing tale of two incidents in young Jonas’s life that occurred some 18 years apart and that are totally intertwined. When we first see him as a quiet gameboy-obsessed 16 year old game boy in 1995, Jonas ( Nicolas Bauwens) obviously has some demons … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIf David France’s Oscar nominated ‘How To Survive a Plague‘ is recognized as the seminal movie on AIDS in the US, then Robin Campillo’s stunning new masterpiece BPM (Beats Per Minute) is undoubtably Europe’s candidate for the title. His sprawling and somewhat harrowing tale that centers on the ACT UP group in Paris is … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesDespite the title’s reference to the original vogue movie Paris is Burning this French documentary serves up a vibrantly haphazard fresh slice of chic. It builds on, rather than just borrows from, the African American ballroom scene. If you like your intersectionality joyful, human and juicy rather than dry, theoretical and earnest this stiletto … Continue reading