A bereaved gay LA college professor mourns the eight-month-old death of his partner. Meticulously preparing for suicide he proceeds through his last day secretly saying goodbye to his friends, but other chance encounters take place.
A top notch intimate drama, adapted from Christopher Isherwood's novel of the same name, with high class editing, gorgeous cinematography from Eduard Gran, an evocative score and great looking sets.
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ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (1999)
Certification15 Our Rating
Former perv-master Almodovar goes all new man with this latest offering, widely considered to be his most accomplished film yet. After the accidental death of her beloved son, Manuela leaves Madrid for Barcelona, where she plans to look up old friends, exorcise her ghosts, and, just maybe, tell her long-estranged ex about the son he never knew he had. But this involves bring up some painful and unpleasant secrets from the past, and present. Almodovar's characteristically camp humour is still pre
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ALL OVER ME (1998)
Certification18 Our Rating
Friendship is put to the test in this story of love and loyalty in Hell's Kitchen, New York. Alison Folland plays Claude, the skateboarding teenager who slowly comes out as gay in a homophobic urban environment. Her feelings are confused by her best friend Ellen who sinks deeper into drug abuse and self destruction. When there's a murder in the neighbourhood, Claude has to choose between loyalty for Ellen or her own instincts. A coming-of-age film debut by Alex Sichel.
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BAD EDUCATION (2004)
Certification18 Our Rating
Ignacio is a young gay film director in 1980's Madrid struggling for a new story line when his old school friend, Enrique, wanders back into his life looking for work as an actor. Ignacio is well aware that all is not as he is being led to believe, but intrigued he investigates their mutual past at a boys' Catholic school and in particular the lecherous behaviour of one of the priests, while at the same time inviting Enrique to share his home. Bad Education is a highly stylised drama come myster
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BEAR CUB (2004)
Certification18 Our Rating
Pedro is a a sexually active homosexual dentist. However when he offers to take care of his nine year old nephew, Bernardo, after the boy's mother travels to India, Pedro endeavours to rein in his more adult behaviour. The two's time together gradually matures into a relationship with genuine love and affection, but the arrival of Bernardo's disapproving grandmother threatens to tear their fragile family apart. Bear Cub is a touching, thoughtful but also unflinching drama from director Miguel Al
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BEAU TRAVAIL (1998)
Certification15 Our Rating
A sergeant-major finds himself threatened by the heroism of an attractive new recruit and, fuelled by resentment, envy and hate, becomes obsessed with plotting the young man's downfall. Though little is spelt out explicitly in this tale of repressed emotion leading to murderous jealousy, the film is accessible and clear throughout. The director's concerns are with how a wide open colonial outpost may become a prison, how men cope with an all-male society and how the physical can mirror the metap
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BEAUTIFUL BOXER (2003)
Certification15 Our Rating
Nong Toom has become one of the very best at his particular discipline, the ancient martial art of Muay Thai, but unlike many of his fellow combatants, Nong is in search of more than just fame and fortune. In the perfection of his art Nong hopes to find the financial means by which he can redefine his very sexuality. Based on a true story, Beautiful Boxer is a bone crunching display of its art, though, perhaps, some of the emotional subtleties have been lost in between the stunningly choreograph
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C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)
Certification15 Our Rating
Eight-year-old Zachary has, so far, enjoyed life as his father's favourite son, as the possessor of a gift for healing and as younger sibling to a tearaway, a jock and a bookworm, but this relatively idyllic childhood in Québec is cast under the shadow of his dad's suspicions when he is discovered wearing a dress. Seven years on it's 1975 and Zac is in thrall to Ziggy Stardust and his cousin's boyfriend, a confusing situation for him, made more complicated by a history of trying to satisfy his d
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CARAVAGGIO (1986)
Certification12 Our Rating
"I am dying in time to the splash of their oars - if arms as steady as these had embraced me in life...". This film is Jarman's vision of the life of the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573 - 1610). Caravaggio revisits periods of his tempestuous life in a series of deathbed flashbacks and prose-poem voice-overs, focusing particularly on the intense relationship between himself and a couple who model for him in Rome, Lena and Ranuccio. This sexual and violent love triangle eve
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CHUCK AND BUCK (2000)
Certification15 Our Rating
Chuck and Buck were boyhood best buddies, brought together again by the death of Buck's mum, it becomes painfully obvious how far the two men have grown apart. While Chuck has become successful, Buck is still living in a world more reminiscent of their childhood and as he attempts to re-bond with his old friend, his actions seem increasingly sociopathic to the now unnerved Chuck. An original, warped and funny buddy movie.
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