Law of Desire (1987)

Law of Desire (1987)
La ley del deseo (original title)

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Writers: Pedro Almodóvar (screenplay), Pedro Almodóvar (story)
Genre: Drama Country: Spain
Language: Spanish With subtitles)
Year: 1987
Duration: 102 min

Stars: Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura and Antonio Banderas

Jeste li kada doživjeli da se neko toliko jako zaljubi u vas da to počne da vas guši. Opsjednut vama, lik kojeg volite počne da vam smeta i ne možete više da normalno funkcionišete.
Ja sam to doživio dva puta. U jednom slučaju nisam znao više na koju stranu da gledan. Idemo ulicom , a on mi prebacuje: “Vidio sam kako ga gledaš, ti bi da možeš sutra bio sa njim. ”
Jezivo, kada primjetite da se neko tako ludački ponaša, moja preporuka je da bježite glavom bez obzira inače će vam se život pretvoriti u pakao!

Pedro Almodóvar , jedan od najboljih Evropskih režisera i ovim filmom me je ostavio bez daha. Drama koji sam odgledao bez da palim cigaretu!

O samom filmu neći mnogo pisati, ko poznaje Almodovarove filmove zna koliko je doživljaj njegovih filmova intimna stvar. Sto ljudi će ih doživjeti na sto načina i svako će u nekom dijelu naći sebe!
Glavnu ulogu u ovom filmu igra fantastični Antonio Banderas, koji tako dobro glumi opsjednutog pedera da na trenutak pomislite kako je i u stvarnom životu ovejana pederčina.
Zanimljiva je scena gdje ga jedan lik jebe u krevetu, a najupečatljivija mi je poslednja scena ovog remek djela.

       

Almodóvar solidified his creative independence when he started the production company El Deseo, together with his brother Agustín, who has also had several cameo roles in his films. From 1986 on, Pedro Almodóvar has produced his own films.

The first movie that came out from El Deseo was the aptly named Law of Desire (La Ley del Deseo). The film has an operatically tragic plot line and is one of Almodóvar’s richest and most disturbing movies. The narrative follows three main characters: a gay film director who embarks on a new project; his sister, an actress who used to be his brother (played by Carmen Maura), and a repressed murderously obsessive stalker (played by Antonio Banderas).

The film presents a gay love triangle and drew away from most representations of homosexuals in films. These characters are neither coming out nor confront sexual guilt or homophobia; they are already liberated, like the homosexuals in Fassbinder’s films. Almodóvar said about Law of Desire : ” It’s the key film in my life and career. It deals with my vision of desire, something that’s both very hard and very human. By this I mean the absolute necessity of being desired and the fact that in the interplay of desires it’s rare that two desires meet and correspond”

Almodóvar’s films rely heavily on the capacity of his actors to pull through difficult roles into a complex narrative. In Law of Desire Carmen Maura plays the role of Tina, a woman who used to be a man. Almodóvar explains: “Carmen is required to imitate a woman, to savour the imitation, to be conscious of the kitsch part that there is in the imitation, completely renouncing parody, but not humour”.

Elements from Law of Desire grew into the basis for two later films: Carmen Maura appears in a stage production of Cocteau’s The Human Voice, which inspired Almodóvar’s next film, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; and Tina’s confrontation scene with an abusive priest formed a partial genesis for Bad Education.

  La ley del deseo (1987)

• Director: Pedro Almodóvar

• Writers:
  Pedro Almodóvar       
  Pedro Almodóvar       

• Country:Spain

• Genres:Comedy, Drama, Romance

• Runtime:102 minutes

• Actors:
  Pablo Quintero

  Eusebio Poncela
  Tina Quintero

  Carmen Maura
  Antonio Benítez

  Antonio Banderas
  Juan Bermúdez

  Miguel Molina
  Inspector de policía

  Fernando Guillén
  Ada, niña

  Manuela Velasco
  Doctor Martín

  Nacho Martínez
  Ada - madre (as Bibí Andersen)

  Bibiana Fernández
  Madre de Antonio

  Helga Liné
  El Cura

  Germán Cobos

• Language:Spanish

• Plot: Pablo and Tina have complicated sexual lives. Pablo writes and directs plays and films; he's gay and deeply in love with Juan, a young man who won't reply to Pablo's affection or letters. Pablo's sibling Tina is a transsexual, angry at men, raising Ada, and trying to make it as an actress. Pablo takes up with Antonio, a youth who becomes jealous of Pablo's love for Juan. Antonio seeks out Juan, and violence leads to Pablo's grief and a temporary loss of memory. When memory returns, he learns that Antonio has taken up with Tina. In horror, he hurries to Tina's rescue and must face Antonio and his desire. Written by

• Also known as: A Lei do Desejo (Brazil), A Lei do Desejo (Portugal), A vágy törvénye (Hungary - imdb display title), Begärets lag (Sweden - imdb display title), Das Gesetz der Begierde (West Germany), De wet van de begeerte (Belgium - imdb display title, Flemish title), Intohimon laki (Finland), La legge del desiderio (Italy), La loi du désir (France), Law of Desire (International - imdb display title, English title), O nomos tou pothou (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Prawo pozadania (Poland),

• Rating:  (4,875 votes)

Cazuza - O Tempo Não Pára (2004)

Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop (2004)
Cazuza - O Tempo Nao Pára (original title)

Director: Walter Carvalho, Sandra Werneck
Writers:: Lúcia Araújo, Fernando Bonassi 
Genre: Biography 
Country: Brazil
Year: 2004 
Duration: 98 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival) Rating: 7.3/10

Stars: Daniel de Oliveira, Marieta Severo, Reginaldo Farias, Andréa Beltrăo, Leandra Leal, Emílio de Melo, Cadu Fávero, André Gonçalves, Arlindo Lopes, Dudu Azevedo, André Pfeffer, Eduardo Pires, Maria Flor, Fernanda Boechat, Pierre Sant

Ne volim filmove sa tužnim krajem, al ovaj sam odgledao sa posebnom pažnjom. Snimljen na jedan polu dokumentarni način ima i priču i dušu. Cazuza je brazilski pjevač koji je u svoje vrijeme bio izuzetno popularan. Na žalost umro je od side 1990. god, a iza sebe je ostavio Brazil liberalniji nego što je bio. Kad je saznao da ima AIDS nije krio bolest što izazvalo zaprepašćenje širom Brazila i motivisalo mnoge ljude da se suprostave neznanju u borbi protiv te pošasti.
Nakon što sam odgledao ovaj film skinuo sam muziku iz filma i posebno mi se dopala pjesma O Tempo Nao Para. Slušajuci je nazvao sam jednog prijatelja, inače brazilca koji živi u Parizu i pitao ga da li zna ko ovo pjeva. Rekao mi je da obožava tu pjesmu i da je pjeva jedan brazilski pjevač koji je umro od side! Naravno dao sam mu link da pogleda ovaj film.

Posle mi je još i rekao da se Cazusove poeme uče u školama i da su obavezna literatura, da je cjeli Brazil počeo da razmišlja dugačije nakon njegove smrti. Nakon Cazuzove smrti pjevač Renato Russo je napravio koncert na kojemu je pjevao Cazuzove pjesme. Na koncertu je bilo suza i plača, al svi su pjevali! Dvije godine kasnije Renato Russo je takođe umro od side.

Brazil danas ima jednu od najjačih kampanja edukacije u prevenciji AIDS-a i zahvaljući tome ta država nema veći broj HIV pozitivnih. Sam Cazuza je prilično razuzdano živio, biseksualac, umjetnik , poeta, provokator… to su sve epiteti koje je dobio za života. Za sebe je jednom rekao : -Rodjen sam bez osjećaja srama!

Cazuzo i danas živi u sjećanjima mnogih brazilaca kao umjetnik koji je ostavio traga u mnogim životima običnih ranjivih ljudi! Inače malo se na ovim prostorima zna o mentalitetu brazilaca, uopšte o mentalitetu ljudi sa južnoameričkog kontinenta. Izuzetno temperamentni, strastveni u ljubavi i mržnji i beskompromisno tvrdoglavi podsjećaju na mediteran. Ovaj brazilac kojeg pominjem u tekstu živi u Parisu, oženjen je i ima dijete. Na jedan internetski način održavamo kontakte i zarekao se da će doći u Crnu Goru da me vidi. Tvrdi da me voli i često dok se gledamo preko kamera to i vidim u njegovim očima. Uplašim se toga. Šta da kažem ako dođe? “Ovo mi je rođak ” sigurno ne može da prođe jer je crnac!

Cazuza – O Tempo Nao Pára (Cazuza – Time Doesn’t Stop) is a 2004 Brazilian movie about the life of singer Cazuza. The film is directed by Walter Carvalho and Sandra Werneck. It stars Daniel de Oliveira as Cazuza. The film is based on the book by Cazuza’s mother, Lucia Araujo. Cazuza – O Tempo Nao Pára won a best actor award from the Sao Paulo Association of Art Critics Awards. Agenor Miranda Araújo Neto, better known as Cazuza (4 April 1958 – 7 July 1990) was a Brazilian composer, singer and poet, born in Rio de Janeiro.

Along with Raul Seixas, Renato Russo and Os Mutantes, Cazuza is considered one of the best exponents of Brazilian rock music. In 1989, he admitted publicly for the first time that he had AIDS and released his last album: Burguesia. Cazuza was openly bisexual but was not active in the gay movement. However his openness about being a person with AIDS helped to change public perceptions and attitudes about HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.

Cazuza died in Rio de Janeiro on July 7, 1990 at the age of 31 from an AIDS related illness. He was buried at the Cemitério Sao Joao Batista Botafogo, in Rio de Janeiro. Cazuza’s mother set up the Viva Cazuza Society (Sociedade Viva Cazuza), a charity which sponsors AIDS prevention and provides a home for HIV-positive children.
The movie was one of the most successful of the year in Brazil.

Focusing on Cazuza’s personal life, the film chronicles his early career, his subsequent success, his drug use and his promiscuous lifestyle. It starts out in the early 1980s in Rio de Janeiro, showing his usual day-to-day life until he joins the band which would become Barao Vermelho. It then shows the band’s rise to fame and its frequent “mutinies” which led him to pursue a solo career. Later, it depicts his struggle against the AIDS virus and his final days.












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Just a Question of Love (2000)

Juste une question d'amour (2000) aka Just a Question of Love

Mislio sam da sam ovaj film ranije stavio na blog, al danas sam ga tražio i nema ga! A film je vrijedno pogledati, posebno za ove mlade pedere koji razmisljaju da li da svojima kažu sve o sebi ili ne! Nekako roditelji zadnji saznaju da im je sin peder! Mnogi i kada saznaju, prave se kao da ne znaju to, jer ne mogu da prihvate takvu činjenicu! Zaista, oni i nemaju mogućnost da izaberu hoće li da saznaju da im je sin peder ili ne, to ipak u većini slučajeva biraju sinovi!

 

Director: Christian Faure

Country: France, Belgium
Year: 2000
Genre: Drama

Actors: Cyrille Thouvenin, Stéphan Guérin-Tillié, Eva Darlan, Daniele Denie, Idwig Stephane, Caroline Veyt, Laurence César, Jean-Pierre Valere, Raphaëlle Lubansu, Jean-Baptiste Lefevre, Aurélie Godichal, Jonathan Fox, Marcel Dossogne, Bruno Georis, Diego Vanhoute 

Moja generacija uključujući i mene je u većini slučajeva birala da to ipak sakrije od svijeta! Lijepo se oženiš, zaposliš i živiš kako drugi oće i kako je to zapisano u knjigama "Narodni običaji" I miran si, napreduješ na poslu, poštovan si u društvu i sve funkcioniše savršeno! A da li je tako? Kako se podnosi ta silna laž koju si sam ispleo oko sebe? Kako sakriti kada se zaljubiš? Kako ukrasti trenutak i pobijeći u mrak gdje ćeš zadovoljiti svoje drugo ja! I što više pokušavaš da se snađeš, sve si prazniji. Poneko i nadje srodnu dušu i onda broji dane kada će je vidjeti, doživjeti....
Pričam vam iz ličnog iskustva. Sve moje ljubavi sam uklapao u svoj način života kako sam znao i umio, da sve izgleda normalno spolja, a da samo on i ja znamo pravu istinu! Da li je to moguće to će te morati saznati sami!

Današnji klinci me plaše jer ne razmišljaju kao ja! Drugačiji su! Brzopleti, naivni, slušaju svoje srce pa srljaju u pustolovinu zvanu coming-out! Nema bezbolnog outovanja! A društvo nam se nije toliko promijenilo da sve prihvata slakoćom!
Uostalom pogledajte ovaj film! I da li je to samo pitanje ljubavi ili pitanje načina na koji će te živjeti svoju sudbinu!

Film pogledajte OVDJE


"Juste une question d'amour" (Just a Question of Love), directed and cowritten by Christian Fauré (Un amour ŕ taire) aired on French television in 2000. It is a coming-out (as gay) story that focuses as much on the parents as on the young men who are in love with each other.

Parents sometimes surprise their gay and lesbian offspring by accepting them. But sometimes the children are right to fear the reactions of their parents. Laurent (Cyrille Thouvenin, "La confusion des genres") loves his parents(Daničlle Denie) and Pierre (Idwig Stéphane), who run a mom-and-pop pharmacy in Paris and is very afraid that they will reject him if they find that he is gay. This is unlikely to happen while he is having sex with men, but not in love with anyone. Moreover, he has the cover (a "beard") of a female room-mate (it seems that rather a lot of young gay men in recent French movies are living with straight women, but I vaguely remember that so was I between my long-term lovers). Laurent's parents dote on Carole (Caroline Veyt). Visions of grandchildren dance in their heads, though Carole is growing weary of having the name (Laurent's partner) without having the game.

Laurent does not have to guess about what will happen, because it pretty much already has happened—to a cousin with whom he was very close. Marc's parents (Laurent's mother's sister and her husband) cut off all communication with Marc, when they learned he was gay. Laurent's parents refused to take Marc in, and when Marc's parents heard that Marc was dying, they proclaimed that AIDS was a just punishment for him (though Marc was dying of acute hepatitis picked up in Vietnam rather than AIDS).

The status quo of Laurent and Carole pretending to be a couple has been destabilized by Laurent's failures (in agricultural school) since Marc's terminal illness. Laurent is dispatched to a field station near Lille in which Cédric (Stéphan Guérin-Tillié) is experimenting on developing vegetables resistant to (((ever-increasing) pollution. Cédric is an intense, bearded hunk. He and Laurent quickly fall into each other's arms.

Cédric took over the family business (a nursery along with the field station) when his father died, which Laurent's father finds exemplary (he is displeased that Laurent has not studied to become a pharmacist) and Laurent's mother likes the Cédric lives with his mother (Emma, played by Eva Darla (Une histoire simple). Emma realized she could accept that Cédric was gay or lose him—immediately after having lost her husband.

Cédric does not want to live the lie of just being Laurent's boss and participate in the Laurent/Jeanne charade. He pushes Laurent, though Emma tells him he should not expect Laurent to move faster than Cédric himself had. She is very maternal to Laurent. Laurent wishes that his mother was like Emma,,, but knows she is not.

Then the melodrama kicks in and most everyone is furious with everyone else (except Cédric and Carole, both of whom push Laurent to come out, and Marc's lover, who is sympathetic to everyone). I do not want to spoil what surprised me in detonating the explosions—which is to say that the trajectory is at least somewhat unpredictable even for someone who has heard and seen many coming-out stories. (I might note that neither Cédric nor Laurent has any connection to politicized gay identity: the message they articulate is "I love him and he loves me and we are going to be together.")

The cast is uniformly excellent, with Eva Darla particularly standing out. The cinematography, music, and editing are unobtrusively effective. Thouvenin and Guerin-Tillie have a palpable chemistry. They can be playful with each other, but both are passionate, not only in love, but in quarrels. (Both can also sulk, too.)

Unlike the other French coming-of-age movies I've seen in the last few years, there is no frontal male nudity (drat!), no bared female breasts, and no simulated coitus (there's kissing and post-coital bed scenes).

There are trailers for eight other French movies, but no bonus features about this one. The (widescreen) visual and audio transfers are excellent, the subtitles legible and devoid of peculiar grammmatical constructions.

 

Although not breaking new cinematic ground, I can't think of any way the story of these characters, none of whom is one-dimensional, could have been shown. What it is showing parents also seems very valuable, t, though those who most would most gain from watching it are the least likely to undertake a subtitled French tv movie with two young men in love with each other, neither of whom wants to lose his parents.

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The Disco Years (1994)

The Disco Years (1994)

Director: Robert Lee King
Writer: Robert Lee King
Genre: Short movie
Duration: 30 min
Country: USA

Stars: Matt Nolan, Gwen Welles and Dennis Christopher

Iako je ovaj film snimljen prije 18 godina, neke stvari se kod nas nisu promjenile od tada. Možda je homofobičnost na balkanu još i veća nego u USA prije 20 godina.
Da li vam se kad desilo da ste sa nekim završili u krevetu , imali strastven seks i taman kad ste pomislili da ste pronašli nekoga sakim možete podijeliti dio svojih emocija, čitava stvar bude završena.
Naprosto ima ljudi koji bi rado imali seks sa muškarcem, ali nakon što to sebi dopuste, najradije bi da dožive potpunu amneziju na taj događaj. Nakon toga im se ponovo oće, pa neće, pa se ožene, pa onda opet oće i dok shvate na koji način da usklade sami sebe prođe im pola života.
Kada naiđete na takve ljude, moj vam je savjet da ne živite u lažnoj nadi nego jasno recite šta želite. Život je pun mogućnosti, izazova i šansi koje treba iskoristiti.

Druga stvar o kojoj možete razmišljati kako sebe uklopiti u homofobičnu sredinu.
Teško je dati neki univerzalan savjet. O tome morate sami razmisliti i donijeti odluke na koji način će te se postaviti prema okruženju. Možda da sve zadržite za sebe, da se javno izjasnite o svojoj seksualnoj orjantaciji ili nešto treće. Šta god odlučili - ISPRAVNO JE!

Pogledajte film OVDJE.

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Coming of age in the 70s, 16 September 1999
Author: Matthew Ignoffo (mermatt@webtv.net) from Eatontown, NJ, USA

This is a bittersweet story of a teen coming of age and realizing that he is gay in the 70s. He has a brief sexual experience with his handsome tennis team mate, but then the team mate gets cold feet and turns homophobic. The main character must deal not only with the rejection of this person on whom he has a crush but also with his shame at realizing that he is gay and the threat of being discovered, especially in light of the homophobia directed to another classmate and a gay teacher. His single-parent mom is supportive until she learns what is bothering him.

The story is touching, funny, sad, and true to the pain of coming out. The performers are all excellent. The film is short and to the point -- an excellent production.

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La otra familia (2011) –The Other Family

La otra familia (2011)

Director: Gustavo Loza
Scenario: Gustavo Loza
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Year: 2011
Duration: 100 min
Rating:

Actors: Jorge Salinas, Luis R. Guzman, Ana Serradilla, Bruno Loza, Carmen Salinas, Ana Soler, Nailea Norvind, Juan Rios Cantu, Dominika Paleta, Luis Gerardo Mendez, Andres Almeida, Silverio Palacios, Mario Zaragoza, Alejandro Calva, Alex Bakalarz

 

 

 

Nekada smo svi za južno američke zemlje uključujući Meksiko mislili da su tradicionalno katoličke, konzervative i pomalo isključive. Još ako tome dodamo brojne vojne hunte, diktature i velike ekonomske i političke krize koje su bile sinoim za južnoameričke države onda nismo mogli ni sanjati da je u takvim zemljama tolerancija prema gay ljudima na nekom pristojnom nivou.

Tako je možda bilo nekada. A danas? Danas je u većini tih država dozvoljen istospolni brak, države finansiraju projekte koje doprinose toleranciji i upoznavanju stanovništva o pojmovima kao što su seksualna orijentacija i odnos društva prema tome. Većina ljudi u tim zemljama je prihvatila LGBT populaciju kao sastavni dio društva! Televizije, novine i ostali mediji promovišu sve projekte koje su u službi borbe protiv homofobije!

Kao rezultat takvog intezivnog rada prestalo se i razmišljati o nekoj posebnoj LGBT kulturi, već je taj pojam samo dio jedne opšte kulture u državi.
Nastali su mnogi kratki filmovi, propagandne poruke, dugometražni filmovi, edukativne televizijske emisije, izložbe, muzika ...
Danas su te zemlje u potpunosti dio razvijenog svjeta, civilizacijski napredne, a koliko mogu uočiti i ekonomski jake! Posebno tu ubrajam Brazil, Argentinu i Meksiko.

La otra familija je Meksički film koji se bavi temom usvajanja dijece u istospolnim brakovima. Ovo je kod nas još uvjek blasfemična primisao jer se homoseksualci, tj pederi smatraju bolesnicima koji se trpaju u bulju , a neki misle i da je to zarazno, tako da je jedan od glavnih argumenata zašto treba ograničiti prava pedera upravo vaspitanje dijece. Religija tu ima takođe velikog uticaja.

Mnoga dijeca odrastu uz očeve pijanice, nemarne majke, narkomane, uz kriminalne ličnosti ili pak u nekom okruženju  koje odlikuje potpuno pomankanje ljubavi, nježnosti i pažnje. Siromaštvo je posebna priča koja može imati i sretan kraj kada je porodica složna i harmonična.
Da li je za takvu dijecu bolje da rastu u nekom sirotištu ili kod gay parova koji su spremni da tom djetetu pruže i ljubav, i podršku u životu!
Ovaj film razbija te dileme. Pun emocija sa lijepom pričom koja nas na momente raznježuje , pa raduje ili rastužuje do plača!
Sa moje strane ima sve preporuke za pogledati!

Prije 5-6 godina bio sam u vezi sa jednim starijim crnogorcem , koji je odrastao u patrijahalnoj porodici. Iskren, pošten čovjek, pun onih vrlina o kojima je pričao Marko Miljanov u svojim pričama o crnogorcima nekad. Kada smo se upoznali bio je već 6 godina u vezi sa jednom ženom koja ga je iskreno voljela i još uvjek ga voli!
Mene je doživljavao kao nekog svog najrođenijeg, i volio me je svim srcem. Upoznao me je sa roditeljima, bratom, sestrom, tom ženom i svima se hvalio da sam mu najbolji prijatelj. Naravno niko nije znao šta smo radili u 4 zida i to u našem slučaju nije bilo ni bitno. Idila je trajala oko 2 godine. Jednom prilikom sam pričao sa njegovom sadašnjom ženom koja mi je rekla: Ne mora on mene nikada oženiti , ali želim da mu podarim radost da ima svoje dijete. Znam da će ga voljeti svim srcem i biti dobar otac.
Nisam to lako podnio ali sam u tom trenutku bio svjestan da moram da se sklonim iz njegovog života po svaku cjenu kako bi mogao da ima ono što mu ja nikada ne mogu dati! Danas ima sina koji mu je sve u životu , sretan je! Ja nisam u kontaktu sa njim!

The other family

THE OTHER FAMILY is the story of Hendrix (Bruno Loza), a 7-year-orld child that’s been abandoned by his crack-addict mother Nina (Nailea Norvind). Ivana (Ana Serradilla), her best friend rescues Bruno,
however, she can’t take care of him because of an ongoing trip to Houston with her life partner (Ana Soler), to analyze the possibility of having an in vitro fertilization. Jean Paul (Jorge Salinas) and Chema (Luis Roberto Guzmán), an adult, stable, gay couple, and friends of Ivana, were given the task of taking
care of Hendriz while his mother spends some time in rehab. Patrick (Andrés Almeida), Nina’s lover and dealer is bien chased by Caimán (Mario Zaragoza), a drug warlord, because of a huge debt. In an
attempt to get the money he tries to sell Hendrix to a young, straight couple (Dominika Paleta y Juan Rios) who just lost a baby. While Nina tries to escape rehab in search of her son, Hendrix slowly
adapts to his new lik with Jean Paul and Chema. Patrick’s running out of time and urges Nina to find her misplaced son.

What’s best for Hendrix? Return to his crack-addict? Live with a homosexual couple that will offer him a better life quality? To be sold in an illegal fashion to a straight couple? or Surrender to the authorities and be sent to an foster house?

 

26 September 2011 | by jotix100 (New York)

Jean Paul and Chema are a gay couple that has been together for ten years. One can see their relationship is solid, proved to be real, as they decide to get married. In a macho dominated society the union between two men is a rarity that came to be legal only recently. It is clear these two men are in love and have decided to make a commitment that speaks loudly than words.
When Nina, a drug addict is sent to prison, her young son, Hendrix, is left to fend for himself. A friend, Ivana, a lesbian in a serious relationship with Gloria, decides to bring the boy to her friends Jean Paul and Chema. The men, uneasy at first, take a liking to the little boy whose innocence captures their hearts. After the initial misgivings, the couple end up loving Hendrix. Unfortunately, Nina wants her son back. Because of her connection with unsavory characters, the plight of the boy takes center stage for criminals that want to sell the boy to a wealthy couple. Jean Paul, and especially Chema, will fight to stand by the boy.
Directed by Gustavo Loza with sure hand, this Mexican entry surprises because of the way the subject matter is treated with honesty in dealing with the issue. Mr. Loza, who also wrote the screenplay, presents us with a drama that in other hands might have degenerated into a sensational account of the two gay couples that are being examined. That, and the fate of the boy, with an uncertain future, is examined with a clarity that speaks volumes as to the intentions of the creator of the film.
There are solid appearances by Jorge Salinas and Luis Guzman as Jean Paul and Chema. The actors do a solid job in the way they approached their roles to make them real. Young Bruno Loza, whom one suspects is the son of the director, is perfectly sweet, in a surprising performance. Ana Serradilla, Ana Soler, Nailea Norvind and the great Carmen Salinas contribute to the over all excellence of the film.

Fit (2010)

Fit (2010)

Director: Rikki Beadle Blair
Scenario: Rikki Beadle Blair
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Year: 2010
Duration: 108 min
Subtitles:  English,Bulgarian, Greek, Serbian

Actors: Duncan MacInnes, Ludvig Bonin, Sasha Frost, Lydia Toumazou, Stephen Hoo, Jay Brown, Rikki Beadle Blair, Alexis Gregory, Andy Williamson, Donovan Christian-Cary, Jack Shalloo, Ambur Khan, Jason Maza, Katie Borland, Alex Papadakis

Description:

Nakon što sam odgledao ovaj film razmislio sam koliko nam ponekad predubjeđenja iskrive sliku onoga što vidimo! Zar vam se nije desilo da za nekoga pomislite da je 100% peder jer se drži svih pederskih stereotipa, a ono na kraju ispadne da je dečko totalno  str8. Dešava se i obrnuto, dosta pedera, posebno onih mlađih zaslijepljeni privlačnošću nekog muškarca počnu da vide stvari koje se definitivno ne dešavaju! Uslijed želje da budu dio nečijeg srca jednostavno ne vide da ta "prava ljubav" njih voli kao i ostale svoje str8 prijatelje.

Bio sam u prilici da prisutvujem razgovorima tipa:" Mislim da bi on želio da ima nešto samnom, način na koji me je gledao mi to govori" Slični zaključci često mogu biti pogrešni uslijed želje za nečim više od prijateljstva!
Jedan od pederskih stereotipa i jeste taj da svaki gay misli da su svi zgodni muškarci  barem bisex, ako već nisu homići. Zvuči vam poznato zar ne!

Kada smo već kod razumijevanja i želje da nas drugi prihvate ovakve kakvi jesmo, jeste li se ikada zapitali koliko ste vi, draga moja pederska gospodo, spremni da prihvatite ljude drugačije od vas? Naježim se kada čujem komentare kako su lezbejke definitivno loše i pakosne osobe, kako su cigani glibavi i smrdljivi neradnici, šiptari su za izbjegavanje, crncima nije mjesto u mojoj državi....

Kad god pomislite tako nešto pomislite da i drugi mogu slično razmišljati sa dodatkom: "pedere treba sve pobiti"

Tolerancija ima dvije strane i uvjek postoji neka manjina i neka većina! Bar se potrudite da otvorite um i prihvatite okolinu onakvu kakva jeste.

Ovaj film nam govori i o jednom tinejdžerskom problemu, shvatanje i prihvatanje sopstvene seksualnosti. Ne znam zašto , ali dosta momaka je našlo za shodno da mi pošalje mail sa problemima u vezi toga. Pitanja tipa, kako mogu biti siguran da sam gay i šta da radim da to ne budem?!

Nemojte se ovome smijati vi ovejani matori pederi, i nemojte zloupotrebljavati mlade ljude koji tek treba da sazrenu i postanu samopouzdane ličnosti!
Svi smo prošli tu fazu, a za mnoge je jedini izlaz odlazak kod psihijatra jer neznanje i tradicionalni stereotipi tipa da je to bolest i slično ne zaobilaze ni ljude koji su seksualno orjentisani prema istom spolu!

O svemu ovome govori nam ovaj sjajan film! Jedan "odvratno feminizirani peder koji je još i crnac" dolazi u školu kao učitelj plesa i glume. I kao u svakoj školi učenici to različito prihvataju isto kao što se različito prihvataju i između sebe!

Film je za svaku preporuku, posebno ministarsvu prosvjete i bilo bi dobro da se prikazuje u svim srednjim školama. Ako ništa drugo ono barem na nacionalnim balkanskim televizijama!
Ovo posebno važi za Srbiju koja je uslijed duge nemštine i izolacije stvorila kritičnu masu stanovništva koje sve one koji se ne uklapaju u sliku "normalnog čovjeka" smatra bolesnicima. Mada budimo iskreni, skoro sve balkanse države imaju isti problem.

 

Ovaj film nam govori  o jednom tinejdžerskom problemu, shvatanje i prihvatanje sopstvene seksualnosti. Ne znam zašto , ali dosta momaka je našlo za shodno da mi pošalje mail sa problemima u vezi toga. Pitanja tipa, kako mogu biti siguran da sam gay i šta da radim da to ne budem?!

Nemojte se ovome smijati vi ovejani matori pederi, i nemojte zloupotrebljavati mlade ljude koji tek treba da sazrenu i postanu samopouzdane ličnosti!
Svi smo prošli tu fazu, a za mnoge je jedini izlaz odlazak kod psihijatra jer neznanje i tradicionalni stereotipi tipa da je to bolest i slično ne zaobilaze ni ljude koji su seksualno orjentisani prema istom spolu!

O svemu ovome govori nam ovaj sjajan film! Jedan "odvratno feminizirani peder koji je još i crnac" dolazi u školu kao učitelj plesa i glume. I kao u svakoj školi učenici to različito prihvataju isto kao što se različito prihvataju i između sebe!

Film je za svaku preporuku, posebno ministarsvu prosvjete i bilo bi dobro da se prikazuje u svim srednjim školama. Ako ništa drugo ono barem na nacionalnim balkanskim televizijama!
Ovo posebno važi za Srbiju koja je uslijed duge nemštine i izolacije stvorila kritičnu masu stanovništva koje sve one koji se ne uklapaju u sliku "normalnog čovjeka" smatra bolesnicima. Mada budimo iskreni, skoro sve balkanske države imaju isti problem.

GayCelluloid.com [David Hall]

Every once in a while, along comes a film that in saying it like it is, gives encouragement and inspiration to others to proudly be their homosexual self. Well thankfully, this is one such occasion.

Then again, this heartfelt message of sexual acceptance should be of no surprise given this groundbreaking feature was made with the support of Stonewall. It tells, in effect, the story of six teenagers, each of whom has fallen foul of the school system thanks to their misbehaviour and who are forced to seek educational redemption by participating in a dance and drama class with a difference. That difference being Loris; the new teaching jock on the block who is as open with his homosexuality, as he is on hand to support his pupils, a mixed group of troubled teens who have far more in common with each other, than what they may care to realise.

And no need to guess that the common factor here is one of sexuality; albeit sexuality with a twist in its tale. Take Lee for example. Your stereotypical butch dyke. Only she’s straight and the best friend of Karmel, namely a girl into make-up, clothes and all that’s pretty, including girls. Hey, who says lesbians aren’t supposed to be girly. And then there’s Isaac, who along with his best friend Ryan is homophobic to the core, having made the life of school geek Tegs a bloody misery. Only who’s actually gay or straight here? Tegs' best friend Jordan has an idea, but then this budding footballer has other things on his mind, as he sets his sights on a career in the so-called beautiful game.

In short, this is a film in which writer, director and don’t you just love him Rikki, think Metrosexuality, Beadle-Blair as Loris has set out to showcase the sparkling sexual diversity "that humanity has to offer." It is a work that brilliantly plays on its performing arts scenario to allow for accusations of being gay to flourish, that of a series of cutting comments, that make for direct replies in return. And here cue such questions as am I gay?, what if my friend is gay?, together with such major issues as religion and homosexuality, sport and homophobia, let alone the differing parental attitudes to gay blood in the family.

That the talented young cast play their roles with added poignancy, should arrive as no surprise, given of a number of them had already performed in front of 20,000 plus people during the three winters that the original stage play / workshop toured the UK; at theatres, youth clubs and critically at schools. Yet that does not diminish their remarkably realistic turns here, even if Jay Brown of Hong Khaou’s Summer credit had the unenviable task of portraying the homophobic bully of the piece; albeit one that is shown the error of his ways, courtesy of seven episodic chapters that detail the life stories and thereby the very sexuality of the principal characters.

Notably reworked for its cinematic outing, along the way taking in many of the players previously seen in Beadle-Blair's spirited Kick Off, this enlightening work equally contains a series of direct-to-camera monologues, that by way of a support group, emotionally cut straight to the hearts and minds of the gay and lesbian teens of today. The result is a vibrant mix of sexual home truths and street dance that is as entertaining, as it is informative. That an exhilarating feature such as this, aimed at addressing homophobic bullying in British schools should be required viewing as part of the National Curriculum, kind of goes without saying. Simply wicked.

 

Sasha (2010)

 

Sasha (2010)

Director: Dennis Todorović
Scenario: Dennis Todorović
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Year: 2010
Duration: 102 min
Rating:

Actors: Sascha Kekez, Predrag Bjelac, Ljubisa Gruicic, Zeljka Preksavec, Gosia Konieczna, Tim Bergmann, Jasin Mjumjunov, Yvonne Yung Hee, Werner Strenger, Christian Lessiak, Ozgur Cebe, Fang Yu, Lucy Schaaf, Anastasia Clemens, Jonathan Ewald

 

Description:

Bio sam iznenađen kada sam vidio da postoji neki "domaći" gay film koji nisam gledao! Tačnije ovaj film je režirao Denis Todorović u Njemačkoj produkciji. Radi se o jednoj našoj porodici koja živi u Njemačkoj! Glava kuće je crnogorac, Pero Petrović, oženjen sa zagrebčankom sa kojom ima dva sina, Vlada i Sašu. Pero predstavlja balkanski stereotip macho muškarca u koji se ubrajaju nama poznati ukrasi svakog "normalnog" balkanca koji voli žene, voli da popije, da se potuče, a nezaobilazna je i sarma na trpezi.

Medjutim nakon 20 godina u Njemačkoj, zapadna kultura se neminovno infiltrirala u ovu balkansku porodičnu idilu.
Stariji sin Vlado je moderan momak, koji se potpuno uklapa u Njemačko društvo, tolerantan i iskren. Mlađeg sina Sašu majka forsira da postane uspješan pianist, te mu plaća časove klavira kako bi upisao muzički konzervatorij.
Otac kao zaštitnik porodice takođe gaji velike simpatije prema Saši jer mu je nekako muškiji od starijeg sina. Svi misle da je Saša u vezi sa kineskinjom Jiao.
Medjutim disciplinovani Saša krije da je zaljubljen u svog učitelja klavira Gebhard Webera koji je neskriveni gay!
Kakva drama može nastati kada se sve to saznaćete kada odgledate ovaj film. Da li roditeljska ljubav uvjek nadjaća bijes i tradicionalno shvaćanje seksualnosti?

Film je odlično napravljen, dobra gluma, a priča je naša! Dovoljno da vas zainteresuje, zar ne!
Interesantno je kako mnogi strani kritičari neke elemente filma vide kao komediju ne shvatajući da je ta komedija dio naše svakodnevnice.  Film definitivno nije komedija vec je to coming-out drama i ljubavna romansa.

Film me asocira na jednog momka iz mog kraja koji je uspješno krio svoje seksualne sklonosti. Niko od komsija i sugradjana nije nista sumljao, imao je djevojku sa kojom je bio u vezi 3 godine, uspješan sportista, omiljen u gradu!
Preko neta me jedan kontaktirao i ispričao šta ga sve muči. Čitao je i obvaj blog koji ga je kako kaže i oduševio i uplašio! Pitao me je postoje li pederi koji se nipočemu ne razlikuju od drugih "normalnih" ljudi osim po tome sto vole seks sa muškarcima.
Naravno da ima, ali nisam bio u stanju da mu objasnim šta je to gay stereotip i elemente koji se prožimaju kod gay ljudi , a koji u večini slučajeva nisu prihvatljivi za neki tradicionalni moralni standard.
Nakon tri mjeseca dopisivanja zakucao mi je na vrata! Ušao mi je u kuću nekako uplašen u dva sata noću! Bojao se da ga neko ne vidi. Uzeh flašu loze pa mu nasuh da se malo opusti i razbije taj strah! Uz priču se oslobodio i počeo sa pitanjima koja su me zabavljala i bila smješna, uglavnom u vezi seksa, važnosti veličine kurca, emocija itd
Pred jutro mu rekoh da moram malo da odspavam jer idem na posao, a on meni: Smijem li te poljubiti - i tako dalje kraj znate! Čitav taj nazovi seks je trajao 2 minuta.
Sastajali smo se jedno 3 mjeseca dok nije napravio sranje i kući svima rekao da je gay! Ne samo doma, nego i prijateljima i u klubu. Možete li zamisliti koji je to skandal bio, od pljuvanja do odobravanja. Preživio je haos. Srećom mene nije nikada pomenuo! Zato sam mu pomagao koliko sam god mogao da sve prebrodi i izvuče se iz sranja u koje se uvalio.
Iako je uspio da ga svi prihvate takvog kakav jeste, odselio je u Njemačku!

 

 

Sasha’s piano teacher Mr. Weber (Tim Bergmann) — on whom Sasha has an insatiable crush — informs Sasha that he is relocating to Vienna. Sasha is heartbroken — make that devastated.
Jiao (Yvonne Yung Hee), Sasha’s best friend is also being pushed (by her father, a Chinese immigrant) to enter the conservatory to study violin. Jiao and Sasha do their best to please their parents, but life (more specifically heartache) gets in the way. Sasha is able to use Jiao as his beard around his homophobic family, but he does not realize that Jiao has an insatiable crush of her own — on him. Therefore, when Sasha comes out to Jiao (during an amazingly beautiful scene in which Jiao is expecting a confession of love) Jiao’s heart is shattered.
Sasha’s mother and Jiao’s father want their children to pursue the careers that they themselves were not able to (probably because life happened to them), partially to fulfill their personal fantasies but also to break their children away from their lower-middle class immigrant lifestyle. Jiao’s father owns a restaurant and Sasha’s mother operates a small pub with Sasha’s father, Vlado (Predrag Bjelac) — it is also worth noting that Vlado did not fulfill his childhood dream of playing professional basketball. All of the parents are unhappy with their current career positions; now their hope is focused entirely toward the next generation.
For some reason writer-director Dennis Todorovic thought this tender coming-of-age drama needed a comedic/slapstick element thrown into the mix, a role which Sasha’s lazy uncle (Ljubisa Gruicic) — who successfully channels Roberto Benigni — gladly fills; other than that minor misstep, Sasha is filled with tenderly rendered scenes dusted with carefully nuanced humor. Sasha is a wonderful interpretation of cultural and generational clashes, finely reflecting the multi-ethnic backgrounds of Cologne. Most importantly, Sasha stresses the importance of communication, openness and honesty amongst friends and family.