Stranger by the Lake (2013)

Stranger by the Lake (2013)"L'inconnu du lac" (original title)

Director: Alain Guiraudie
Writer: Alain Guiraudie
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: France
Language: French
Duration: 100 min

Stars: Pierre Deladonchamps, Christophe Paou, Patrick d'Assumçao, Jérôme Chappatte, Mathieu Vervisch

Stranac pored jezera  ( Stranger by lake) je francuski thriler u režiji Alain Guiraudie koji je na Kanskom festivalu 2013 dobio nagradu za režiju. Film je osvojio i Queer Palm nagradu, a takođe je prikazivan i na Toronto International Film Festivalu 2013. god.

Većina pedera i gejeva su iskusili čari kruzinga pored neke nudističke plaže na kojoj se kupaju mnogobrojni istomišljenici, radoznalci, swingeri, biseksualci, drkadžije, voajeri itd. Ukoliko ipak ima neko ko ne zna o čemu pričam neka sačeka prve tople proljetne dane i posjeti nudističu plažu, a ukoliko želite da to bude u Crnoj Gori predlažem vam Crvenu Glavicu, Adu Bojanu, Ratac ili Jaz.
Nemojte se samo sunčati i kupati nego malo prošetajte okolo plaže, a posebno predlažem da obiđete zaklonjenija mjesta, šumarke, udaljene uvalice i slično.
Velike su šanse da će te naići na razne likove koji onako napaljeno i uznevereno gledaju u vas potajno ili otvoreno drkajući kurac raznim mimikama vam davaju do znanja da žele seks sa vama ili vas otvoreno pitaju da li bi im dopustili da vam popuše kurac ili da vas prijateljski izjebu. U svakom slučaju od vaših afiniteta zavisi šta će te dalje raditi i nemojte se stidjeti šta god učinjeli. U tim trenucima budite upravo ono što želite da budete u vašim najluđim maštarijama uz koje obično drkate.
Na jednom od takvih mjesta, tamo neđe u Francuskoj na obali nekog jezera redovno dolazi i Frank, glavni lik ovog filma.
Svaki dan uredno polaže svoj bijeli peškir na plaži osmatrajući koga sve ima u okolici i pažljivo odmjeravajući one malobrojne sa kojima nije imao seks.Upoznaje Henrija, sredovječnog polu geja koji se nikada ne skida i uvjek je udaljen od ostalih nudista. Henri ga uvjek zove na piće ili na večeru ali Frenku izgleda nije do druženja sa nekim ko ga seksualno ne privlači.
Takođe upoznaje i Mišela, zgodnog muškarca srednjih godina koji djeluje baš onako muški i pomalo opasno. Naravno to je samo maska jer univerzalni Mišel obožava da se nabija na kurac kako bi povremeno razradio mušku dlakavu pičkicu.

Mišel na plaži ima i sex partnera tj. dečka sa kojim se redovno prca u okolnoj šumi.
Jedno kasno poslije podne Frank iz šume ugleda Mišela kako se kupa u jezeru sa svojim ljubavnikom. U tom trenutku Mišel uhvati nesretnog ljubavnika i udavi ga u jezeru.

Sledeći dan Frank se susreće sa Mišelom na plaži i pravi se da ne zna šta se desilo predhodni dan. Nakon kratog razgovora završe u  šumici iznad plaže gdje su uredno napunili jedan drugome guzice dok ih je jedan drkadžija posmatrao. Rodila se naravno ljubav jer seks je bio savršen. ( kod pedera seks je glavni pokazatelj zaljubljenosti:) U ovom slučaju Frenk je taj koji zove na piće i večeru, a Mišel kako to pederska pravila zahtjevaju odbija.

Šalim se naravno oko ove zaljubljenosti ali definitivno je kod promiskuitetnih pedera pravilo da sa osobom koja služi za seksualne igrice nikada ne idu na piće i da se ujutro nikada ne probude pored upotrebljenog kurca. Kod gejeva je to ipak malo drugačije, ali u suštini ponašanje je slično.

Ne bih da vam otkrijem sve do kraja, ali čitava ova priča ima nedorečen kraj i mislim da bi dodatnih desetak minuta  upotpunilo doživljaj gledanja ovog filma.
Za one koji vole malo eksplicitnije filmove siguran sam da će uživati u scenama seksa koje su snimane kao u nekim softcore pornićima.

Mene je ovaj film podsjetio na jedan događaj na nudističkoj plaži na Crvenoj Glavici. Bio je jedan čiča koji je tamo svakodnevno dolazio i kupao se na dijelu plaže na kom se ne kupaju pederi. Neke postarije gospođe su mu ponekad pravile društvo ali uglavnom je bio sam. Kako sam se početkom ljeta kupao baš na tom mjestu, a vikende provodio u obližnjem kampu mogao sam ga krišom posmatrati. Bio mi je zanimljiv način na koji komunicira sa ostalim ljudima na plaži i kako je potpuno opušten i prirodan. Iako je imao skoro 60 godina bio mi je privlačan.

Kada sam se naveče vraćao u kamp prolazeći pored njega pozovem ga na pivo. Pristane i odemo u kamp ispred šatora. Otvorimo limenke i počnemo sa pričom kako bi se bolje upoznali. Ja skinem kupaće i samo se obavijem sa peškirom, a on kada je to vidio pitao me da li bi mi smetalo da i on uradi isto jer je mnogo prijatnije nego u kupaće.
Ispričao mi je sve o bivšoj ženi, djeci, poslu , popili 3-4 piva i vidno raspoložen usred tog  str8 razgovora me pita: Jesi li kada pušio kurac?Nasmijah se i rekoh da jesam. On odgovori da nije i da nema namjeru ni da proba.
Vidim iskren je čovjek, a očito je i šta  želi pa mu rekoh da umoči kitu u pivo. Makne peškir umoči kitu u pivo i tako ja dobih pivo sa kite. Dobro je bilo:)

Stranger by the Lake (French: L'Inconnu du lac) is a 2013 French drama film directed by Alain Guiraudie. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where Guiraudie won the award for Best Director. The film also won the Queer Palm award. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
During the summer, on the edge of a lake surrounded by hills and forests and far from any houses, several male bathers, mostly naturists and gay, come to sunbathe. The woods behind the beach are a place where fleeting sexual encounters take place in a promiscuous atmosphere. Each day, Franck lays his towel on the white stony beach where he gets to know Henri (whose wife has just left him) and also Michel, a good-looking man to whom he is immediately attracted. But Michel is a murderer as Franck soon finds out when one evening, from the woods which overlook the lake, he spots him drowning Pascal, his current partner. Upset and afraid but also completely under the spell of the murderer, Franck keeps what he has seen a secret, becoming an accomplice to the man he desires. He soon gives in to his advances and falls passionately in love with him, yet all the while hiding his fear in case his lover should realise that he knows exactly what he did.

Two days later, the body of the drowned man is discovered and identified. His death is considered suspicious bringing a police inspector to the scene who interrogates Franck and Michel shortly after. Franck continues to protect Michel by stating that he didn't see anything unusual on the evening the man drowned. As the inspector continues his investigation, Franck and Michel's relationship progresses, even as Franck becomes increasingly frustrated by Michel's refusal to meet him anywhere other than at the beach. Henri, with whom Franck has built up an entirely platonic relationship so far, has an intuitive understanding of what has happened over the past few days, and warns Franck about Michel: "In your shoes, I would be very scared!" Franck is afraid of course, but when his psychopathic lover arrives during the discussion, he leaves Henri for Michel and sits down next to him further along the beach.

Later on, Franck goes swimming far from shore. Henri, making the most of Franck's absence, goes to see Michel and tells him he's convinced that the recent drowning wasn't an accident, that he has realised that Michel was the killer, and that the inspector will identify the murderer sooner or later. He looks at Michel knowingly and mockingly, then stands up and says he's going to go for a walk in the woods. As he enters the woods, he casts a glance back at Michel.

Franck who is still swimming in the lake, turns around suddenly towards the beach: Michel has disappeared and Henri too. Elsewhere the beach is now deserted. Overcome with a bad feeling, Franck swims back to the beach and hastens into the woods. He sees Michel leaving a leafy bush behind which he finds Henri dying and covered in blood: Michel has slit his throat. Franck takes off his tee-shirt and tries to stop the bleeding but Henri makes him understand that it's too late and that he got what he was looking for. With Henri dead, Franck is terrified and runs off into the woods to hide. Michel follows him and chances upon the inspector, who he hits violently and stabs in the stomach with a knife. Night falls and Franck remains crouched behind a bush from where he can see the killer walk past time and again just a few yards away from him, looking for him and calling for him to show himself and saying that he needs him, needs his love and that he wants to spend the night with him. Finally, Michel goes away to look for him further in the woods: the danger seems to have passed, so Franck finally stands up and calls his lover's name, with no reply. He waits in the darkness, overcome with fear and his heart beating fast, looking into the woods and the silence.

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)

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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August (2011)

August (2011)

Director: Eldar Rapaport Writers: Brian Sloan (story), Eldar Rapaport (story)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Year: 2011
Runtime: 100 min

Stars: Murray Bartlett, Daniel Dugan and Adrian Gonzalez

U vezi ste, imate stabilan "bračni život" , još samo da rodite dijete pa da vas bog poživi. Sretna gej bajka o kojoj mnogi sanjaju ali nikako da je ostvare. Uvjek neki kurac hvali, ponekad i bukvalno! Koliko god voljeli što ste gej i željeli da budete vjerni svom partneru, morate biti svjesni da u vama čuči i pederski gen.
Taj pederski gen jebaš onaj đavo koji kvari anđeoske misli pa počnete da razmišljate o drugim pedrima, seksu, kurčevima itd. Radoznalost je čudo, a ova je jača od vas. I nemojte da lažete da listate časopise, chatujete po netu, idete na nudističke plaže, idete na gej zabave jer vam je to samo način da prekratite vrijeme. Vi to radite jer vas pederski nagon tjera da probate nešto novo, iskusite strast seksa sa nekim ko će vas napaliti pogledom, osmjehom i pokretom od kojeg vam se diže kita.
Ako imate tolerantnog partnera ( znajte da je isti kao vi) jedan od boljih načina da zadovoljite prirodne pederske nagone je da to zajedno uradite. Trojka , četvorka, nebitno je. Bitno je samo da sve što radite uradite zajedno.

A kako izgleda kada se jedan zgodan muškarac doseli u L.A. i pozove Jonathana kojeg je prije nekoliko godina upoznao u Barceloni, da popiju piće pogledajte u ovom filmu. Jonatan je u vezi sa Raulom, ali ga seksualno jako privlači Johnatan i naprosto nemože da odoli želji da se pojebe sa njim.
Nakon ispunjene želje uvuče i svog partnera u seksualne ludorije. Nakon svega toga ostane istina: volimo li iskreno čovjeka sa kojim smo u vezi?

When Troy (Murray Bartlett) returns to Los Angeles after a multi-year foray in Barcelona, he contacts Jonathan (Daniel Dugan), the object of his desire during a short-lived, intense summer fling five years earlier. Their still-smoldering connection is obvious from the first, but Jonathan tries to fight his desires while his live-in boyfriend Raoul (Adrian Gonzalez) approaches the situation with a hands-off approach. Meanwhile, Troy’s inability to make a commitment one way or the other complicates matters. Lovingly shot and languidly told, August uses the perspectives of all three men and a muddled timeline to tell their stories, successfully mixing Rashomon with a dash of Memento to give a unique twist to the romantic-triangle genre. Writer and director Eldar Rapaport has created rich, complex characters for each of the leads. Special notice should be given to the subtly beautiful soundtrack by Surque (with additional music by Harel Shachal), which weaves delicate Latin guitars over and through the story, adding another layer to this already intricate, emotionally full tale.

306

306

Director: Elliot London
Country: USA
Language: English
Year: 2010
Genre: Short movie, Drama
Duration: 11min
Actors: Brian Estel, Raquel Houghton, Scott Lynch-Giddings

 

Ljetos sam imao avanturu sa jednim studentom, koji je radio u jednom hotelu kao recepcioner. Kao i mnogi studenti iskoristio je ljetnu pauzu da zaradi nešto para kako bi mogao nastaviti studije. Samouvjereno me je ubjedio da se necu pokajati ako ga upoznam i da ga se nikada neću postidjeti na bilo koem mjestu.
Zaista je tako i bilo, sjajan momak, spolja jak i izgrađen muškarac, navikao da samo radom može doći do željenog cilja, a skriveno ipak dječak koji je željan ljubavi, poljubaca i nježnosti.
Ono što me posebno impresioniralo je izgrađen osječaj za pravdu i poštenje koje se danas može sresti samo u nekim djelovima Crne Gore - van Podgorice i većih gradova.

Nasuprot njemu, mnogi studenti se odlučuju da na "lakši" način dođu do novca, pri čemu žrtvuju  dostojanstvo i još po nešto, a na šta tačno mislim pogledajte u ovom kratkom filmu Elliot Londona koji mi se izuzetno dopao.

A recurring theme of the 2010 IRIS shorts has been films of few, if any words and this beautifully rendered work from the pen of co-writer / director Elliot London perfectly exemplifies the art of silent story telling. And it all centres around Eric; a college student who seemingly has it all; the looks, the intellect and the love of a long-term companion. Only just how well do you know your partner? For this is a work that arrives with a twist in its tale, as the trust and betrayal narrative turns the tables on a day in the life of a seemingly normal student.

 Along the way, co-writer Gregory Phelan provides his audience with subtle hints here and there, gradually building up to the surprise conclusion. It is one that as with all twist endings, some may have already guessed, whilst to others the revelation can only add to the overall enjoyment of a well-executed piece that in this instance, is lovingly accompanied by the emotional piano score of Mark Chiat, one that perfectly conveys the unspoken feelings of lead actor Brian Estel. As a dialogue free work, this compelling short packs quite an expressive punch. Need more be said?
starring: Brian Estel as Eric and Scott Lynch-Giddings as Mr Smith,
amongst a cast of many players.

3 (I) (2010) aka Trojka

3 (I) (2010) aka Trojka

Director: Tom Tykwer Scenario: Tom Tykwer Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance Country: Germany Year: 2010 Duration: 119 min(Venice Film Festival)
Rating: 8/10
Actors: Sophie Rois, Sebastian Schipper, Devid Striesow, Annedore Kleist, Angela Winkler, Alexander Horbe, Winnie Bowe, Hans-Uwe Bauer, Peter Benedict, Georgette Dee, Michael Dorn, Cedric Eich, Christopher Karl Hemeyer, Hans Hohlbein, Senta Dorothea Kirschner












Opis:

Danas sam pogledao još jedan njemački film na temu veza sa biseksualnim muškacima. Nesretno sročeno jer se u ovom filmu radi o jednoj trojki. Film nam priča priču o srednjovečnom berlinskom paru koji se odvojeno zaljubljuje u istog muškarca! Za razliku od predhodnog filma Cibrail, ovaj je urađen odlično. Dobra gluma i odlična priča održaće vašu pažnju tokom cjelog trajanja filma.

Neću vam mnogo detaljisati, iako je sama tema većini pedera poznata. ( Barem onima iz moje generacije)
Ne znam da li sam već pisao u ovom blogu ali moja najveća i najsnažnija ljubav upravo liči na ovu priču! Desila se krajem 80-tih godina. Bio sam u vezi sa čovjekom koji je živio sa djevojkom punih šest godina. Meni bilo dobro, nije me zapostavljao, razumio me je, a bio sam i u odličnim odnosima i sa njegovom djevojkom , porodicom, prijateljima...

Jednom prilikom joj je priznao da me voli. Ona je rekla pa i ja ga volim. - Al ja ga volim...baš onako...
Ona na to poslije duže pauze pita: A ko koga.. znaš..ono
Kasnije je bilo sučeljavanja, a sa moje strane očaja, straha itd. Pokušali smo da održimo ono što je napozitivnije u toj situaciji bilo, a to je da se svi medjusobno volimo, međutim u životu nije sve kao na filmu.

Iako sam kasnije upadao u slične situacije nekako mi se čini da je to moj usud. Jednostavno privlače me muškarci koji su se dokazali i kod žene i u društvu, i na poslu .. U svakom pogledu kompletne osobe, mada istini za volju i komplikovane!

Assured Filmmaking from a Mature Director, 6 September 2011

Author: wordmonkey from San Francisco, Ca.

Tom Tykwer has come of age as a director with this film, and has dropped his sparkling visual flair in favor of straightforward yet sophisticated storytelling. His camera and editing are spot-on yet smart, as he carefully weaves a layered tale of two lost adults who rediscover and remake themselves through their relationship with another man.
His nuanced trio of characters deliberately play against gender types: Simon, the husband, is passive, quiet, artistic, and metaphorically female; Hanna, the wife, is assertive, successful, opinionated, and symbolically male; Adam, their paramour, a fertilization specialist who "brings life" to their dull routine, has both male and female sides.
The way their lives intertwine is both surprising and entertaining, and Tykwer not only explores their raw cores of emotional and physical need, but deftly and expertly exposes the humor in Hanna and Simon's awkward fumbling for new purpose.
What Woody Allen does for New York, Tykwer does for Berlin, showcasing the city as a vibrant center of art, culture, and yes, sexuality, filled with creative inhabitants who have gone there to remake themselves.
His intermittent visual collages of the character's lives inject new vitality to the stale montages we've all seen a million times; it's not that the screen has never been subdivided this way before, but that Tykwer's method of visual construction is meticulous and succinct -- like every frame of this film.
The result is an engaging, truthful, and non-traditional romance that leaves you feeling hopeful that love can tear down our seemingly permanent walls; yet another reason to set it in Berlin!
Highly recommended.

Cibrâil (2011)

Cibrâil (2011)

Director: Tor Iben
Scenario: Tor Iben
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Year: 2011
Duration: 70 min
Rating:

Actors: Sinan Hancili, Martina Hesse, Peter Beck, Volker Figge, Oliver Weidner, Deniz Kara, Murat Urun, Ingmar Skrinjar, Niklas Peters

 

 

 

Iako sam ovaj film pogledao bez titla, jer ga nidje nisam mogao naći, ispalo je da mi nije ni trebao! Naime jako malo dijaloga i gomila bespotrebnih scena čine da priču savršeno možete razumijeti iako ne znate ni jednu riječ njemačkog jezika!

Cibrâil (Sinan Hancili) je policajac turskog porijekla koji živi sa djevokom Christinom u Berlinu. Jedan naizgled sretan i skladan par koji živi u velikom komfornom stanu.

Jednog dana im Kristinin rođak Marko dođe u posjetu. Kako oboje rade nemaju mnogo vremena za njega pa Marko obilazi Berlin po svom ličnom osjećaju! Često zaglavi i u neki park ili gay klub ali to naravno ne priča svojim domaćinima.

Međutim Cibrail koji je Marka jednom vidio u parku počinje da osjeća privlačnost prema svom gostu.
Privrženost i prijateljstvo prerastaju u strast i nastavak već i sami znate. Nakon što ih je Kristina zatekla kako jedan drugome drkaju kite napušta stan koji odjednom izgleda prazan. Cibrail malo luta po Berlinu, kao nešto usamljen i pogubljen dok na kraju tu prazninu ne popuni njegova nova ljubav!

Film je očajno urađen iako je imao potencijala da ispadne baš dobar. Dobri glumci i lijepa priča izgleda za ovog nesretnog reditelja nisu dovoljni da napravi jednu lijepu emotivnu romansu.

Nego sam film nije zavrijedio da ovoliko pišem o njemu, već priča koja je vjerujem mnogim pederima poznata! Veza sa nekim ko je već u braku. Kako li to na kraju vama završi ne znam , ali moje veze su trajale po pet ili više godine, ali su na kraju uvjek propadale!
Neko mi reče , nemoj nikada da stupaš u vezu sa nekim ko je oženjen ili je tek izašao iz veze! Možda je u pravu ali mene su uvjek privlačili "malo drugačiji pederi" Jbga!

Eng.

Cibrâil, a young policeman, lives happily with his art-dealer girlfriend in Berlin. Everything seems fine, money is not a problem, and Cibrâil is well integrated into German society, despite his Turkish origins. What is the reason for his sleepless nights? A gay cousin of his girlfriend who lives permanently in Rome, comes to visit them but that does not seem to disturb their relationship, or at least on the surface. The guest is friendly, free and enjoys being on his own. He wanders around in town and takes pictures. He has also some love affairs. Cibrâil gets close to him, almost unwittingly: they jog, go for a stroll and confide their secrets to each other. But sometimes attraction can be fatal. In Berlin, a cold city where disturbing episodes of homophobia take place, a story about undisclosed passions told in a frigid, unemotional and minimalist style. –Torino GLBT Film Festival

 

Cibra by dinho_lisbon

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Wrecked (I) (2009)

Wrecked (I) (2009)

Directors: Bernard Shumanski, Harry Shumanski 
Writers: Harry Shumanski, Bernard Shumanski 
Genre: Drama 
Country: USA 
Language: English Year: 2009 Duration: 73 min



Stars: Forth Richards, Benji Crisnis and Theo Montgomery

Ryan (Forth Richards, I think, since much of the cast may be working under pseudonym) is a young wannabe actor. He has landed his first part in a play, but his happiness is short-lived as former boyfriend Daniel (Benji Crisnis, I think) shows up. Daniel is a drug addict, but Ryan takes him in (again) anyway, hoping to change him since he won't change himself. Daniel immediately goes back to his old habits, including introducing Taylor (no idea who played him) into the relationship. Ryan's life begins to spiral downward, and the film ends with a scene you could predict before you even popped the disc in the DVD player.

The three leads get nude, often. The Shumanski brothers wallow in Ryan's filthy world; you can almost smell the stale cigarette butts and warm wine in his squalid little house. However, the Shumanskis let their willing cast down. Some of the scenes are obviously improvised, and watching the young cast try to smoke and talk like adults before shedding their underwear is embarrassing to sit through. I began to mistake Ryan's constant naivete for mild mental retardation as Daniel goes through his drug addict and casual sex routine and elicits only tsk-ing and rolled eyes. The direction is sloppy (you can spot a cameraman in a mirror in one scene, and dates on cell phones never jibe), the editing is fair, and the music makes no impression whatsoever. The Shumanskis pad the film with unnecessary shots of the dudes waking up, getting their bearings, and dressing.

Richards plays Ryan like a drag queen channeling Bette Davis. He smokes too much, and swirls his hands, but shows no real emotion beyond mild contempt. I didn't care about him at all. Ryan demands Daniel get a job, yet we never see what Ryan does for a living. Crisnis is bland, never offering any reason why Ryan would fall for Daniel over and over again, despite getting hurt every time.

The only scenes that almost work are Ryan's play rehearsals. The play, as presented to the viewer, is a disaster. The director obviously wants to take Ryan to bed, his chain smoking assistant hates the world, and one of his co-stars is one of those Brando wannabes who must stretch and do annoying preparation for this piece of garbage he is "starring" in. Trust me, I have a theater background, and a lot of this is dead-on. Plus, these scenes provide a break from all the cocaine snorting and gay sex.

"Wrecked" joins the sad list of sexually explicit films that fail because of the script and direction, and not the sex. Move over, "9 Songs," "Shortbus," and almost everything Larry Clark has ever done, "Wrecked" and its truth-in-advertising title is here.

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Wrecked (2009)

• Directors: Bernard Shumanski, Harry Shumanski

• Writers:
  Harry Shumanski
  Bernard Shumanski

• Country:USA

• Genre:Drama

• Runtime:73 minutes

• Actors:
  Taylor

  Forth Richards
  Daniel

  Benji Crisnis
  Ryan

  Theo Montgomery
  Photographer Rodney

  Womack Daryl
  Kevin (as Peter Peterson)

  Peter Petersen
  Herself, Acting Teacher

  Beatrice Carina
  Actress

  Heidi Blissenbach
  Actor

  Garett Dragovitz
  Ryan

  Jake Casey

• Language:English

• Plot:An edgy drama about a gay teen's tumultuous decent into drugs and anonymous sex, Wrecked smashes cinematic taboos while it spins its cautionary tale. Ryan is an earnest 18-year-old trying to develop a career as an actor and getting his life on the right track. This course is quickly threatened with the sudden arrival of his sort-of ex, Daniel, who arrives at Ryan's door wanting a place to stay and offering the promise of a normal, loving relationship. But Daniel's drug addiction and attitude towards casual sex derail any hope for normalcy and soon ensnares Ryan in his own downward spiral. Handheld cameras, a hot young cast and a boldly upfront approach to sex combine to make Wrecked a unique film experience. Written by TLA Releasing

• Also known as:Défoncés (France - DVD title), Wrecked - ...abgef***ed (Germany - DVD title),

• Rating: (185 votes)