David Pablos’ riveting Mexican film En El Camino, winner of the Queer Lion, presents a fresh take on the queer road trip movie.
En el camino Updates the Queer Road Trip Playbook
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Empty Incel Nonsense
Evi Kalogiropoulou’s deeply disappointing Gorgonà leans so heavily into fascist aesthetics it starts to resemble the very thing it criticises.
Night Stage Creates a New Landscape for the Gay Erotic Thriller
Night Stage by Marcio Reolon, Filipe Matzembacher is a fun De Palma homage from Brazil that reinvents the queer erotic thriller.
Blind Love. Tunnel Vision.
References to Alfred Hitchock and Edward Yang does the paper-thin queer Taiwanese love story Blind Love no favours.
Some Nights I Feel Like Walking Refreshingly Tackles the Realities of Urban Queer Life
Some Nights I Feel Like Walking doesn’t buy into the glittery tropes of recent queer cinema — instead diving into the harsh realities of gay life.
Block Pass. A Tyred Vintage.
Antoine Chevrollier’s Block Pass captures its working-class milieu well but suffers due to its tired secondhand framing of queer suffering.
The Enduring Appeal of Bugis Street
A new restoration of Bugis Street underscores the queer and transgressive Singaporean film’s timeless message nearly 30 years after its release.
Antalya Film Festival Day Five: Queer Lives in Crisis
Two excellent queer-minded societal critiques had me wonder: perhaps the A in LGBTQA stands for Antalya.