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Posts Tagged "gay interest"

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Reinventing Marvin [Marvin ou la belle education] *** (2017, Finnegan Oldfield, Jules Porier, Grégory Gadebois, Vincent Macaigne, Catherine Salée, Catherine Mouchet, Charles Berling, Isabelle Huppert) – Classic Movie Review 12,731

Anne Fontaine’s 2017 French drama film Reinventing Marvin [Marvin ou la belle education] stars the then rising French star Finnegan Oldfield as Marvin, a gay actor in Paris struggling to write and perform a theatre […]

Nov, 28

Where Are You Going, Habibi? [Wo willst du hin, Habibi?] *** (2015, Cem Alkan, Martin Walde, Tuncay Gary) – Classic Movie Review 12,725

The engaging 2015 German film Where Are You Going, Habibi? stars Cem Alkan as Ibo, a super-nice young German of Turkish descent living with his traditionally minded family, but leading a double life as a […]

Nov, 22

Beyond the Walls [Hors les murs] **** (2012, Matila Malliarakis, Guillaume Gouix, David Salles) – Classic Movie Review 12,724

The turbulent, troubling 2012 Belgian drama film Beyond the Walls [Hors les murs] stars Matila Malliarakis as young pianist Paulo, who meets Albanian bartender Ilir (Guillaume Gouix). Ilir brings him home drunk and they become […]

Nov, 21

Label Me *** (2019, Nikolaus Benda, Renato Schuch) – Classic Movie Review 12,722

Renato Schuch stars in the exceptional 2019 German drama film Label Me as Syrian refugee Waseem, who lives in a German homeless shelter, and Nikolaus Benda plays wealthy German man Lars, who lives in a […]

Nov, 18

Consequences [Posledice] **** (2018, Matej Zemljic, Timon Sturbej, Gasper Markun) – Classic Movie Review 12,694

The 2018 Slovenian film Consequences is a devastating, desperate, despairing drama, persuasively written and performed, especially by Matej Zemljic, who is brilliant as troubled teen Andrej, and Timon Sturbej, who is monstrously scary as gang […]

Oct, 28

Passages *** (2003, Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulos) – Classic Movie Review 12,665

Ira Sachs’s 2023 French romantic drama film Passages is a smart but spectacularly chilly film without a sympathetic character in sight, particularly its incredibly selfish, nasty film-director ‘hero’ (Franz Rogowski). Director Ira Sachs’s 2023 French romantic drama film Passages […]

Oct, 08

Strange Way of Life [Extraña forma de vida] ** (2023, Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal, George Steane, Manu Ríos) – Classic Movie Review 12,663

Pedro Almodóvar’s Western short film Strange Way of Life is over-produced and under-realised, with a lot of expertise put into something so simple and flimsy. But Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal go to it with […]

Oct, 06

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