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Gay Themed

Gay cops who stare at each other in a very sexy way is my new favorite genre. This was an entertainingly good detective movie with a gay undercurrent, neither of which are truly fleshed out but the potential was there. When the film started with a guy in cop uniform, I was like "this dude is so f***ing hot" and even when the film ended , I do stand by my thought. An interesting murder mystery of a wealthy gay man and how cops have to navigate through gay scene to find the culprit make the gist of this film. Ambiguity pervades the film in both a sexual sense, in the relationships between the main male actors and the plotline of the aftermath of the murder; and this might be a deterring factor for. Lot of movie watchers. The film starts with a rich gay man's murder, who belongs to a very influential family. We see a handsome policeman Ganso waiting at the crime scene for detectives to show up. Enter Chavez, a handsome middle aged detective with a wife and kid who is asked b...

OMG! This film was such a boujee film and what a drag!! Showing us the daily life of a gay couple who has already gone through the great storms and who now lives in calm, with all its contradictions.The hook of this film is that this couple have supposedly created their version of perfection, only for it to be called into question by the inevitable developments of life. I am not sure, but even if thats what it was trying to say, the film was so boring, monotonous that it ends up becoming one big snooze fest. I mean this film can easily be summarized as one 15 minute short film. Juan and Mariano are a gay couple who have been together for many years. Recently they decided to leave their city life in Buenos Aires and move to countryside with more open space, less stress to be more in contact with Nature. Juan is an established writer so from a work perspective it will be fine for him, while Mariano dreams of opening a nursery and making pots. While they are settling in, their best friend...

Once again, I watched a film of Marco Berger not knowing that it was directed by him. And the funny thing is, while I watched this film, all I could think of was that the director of the film is so inspired by Marco, because this is so much into his zone. It's only when the film ended and it said 'Film by Marco Berger', I smiled and laughed so hard. So clearly I have figured out what this guy likes to direct. Movies with extreme sexual tensions and guess what, he is sooo good at these. Pedro, openly gay, and Maxi, happily straight and single, begin a close friendship and pretend to be a couple during a summer by the sea. Fill this with extreme dick and sex conversations with parallels of being an astronaut and in space, the film leaves you feeling extremely horny by the end of it. Pedro returns to Buenos Aires to spend a holiday with his cousin and a group of his friends, including Maxi who he hasn’t seen since his school days. As they catch up there is a flirty energy betw...

It feels like this film took a cue from the Italian gay films made by Ferzan Ozpetek, which are some of my favorite films by the way. The film places us in the privacy of a comfortable Buenos Aires house where a group of friends meet to celebrate the seventieth birthday of Alejandro, Pedro's partner and the couple have been together for many years. The film is a celebration of sexuality, friendship and how times have changed. As you would expect, relationships evolve as truths about love, loss, and societal shifts emerge, exploring complexities that bind people together. It's Alejandro's 70th birthday and him and his partner Pedro are throwing a dinner party. What follows is the audience meeting s group of friends and what their relationships are with each other and everyone else. First to arrive is a straight couple who have been close friends. But we soon find out that the wife is extremely unhappy in her very boring wedding while her conservative husband is stuck in his ...

After watching the film, it feels like the film is full of metaphors, some that I understand but many that I probably did not. There are some odd moments story-wise, which seem out of place, and it is slow at points, but the film is nevertheless interesting to watch. Homosexuality issues are naturally mixed with religion and the authoritarianism of a patriarchy, showing us a snapshot of the society in a very small town of Northern Argentina. The movie also shows how important the legends of the country people are for that society and how they try to survive with that great weight and trying to solve it with their own weapons. Nino lives with his family and he is in the midst of exploring his early awakening sexuality. At age 14, Nino is already a victim of homophobic attacks. To protect him, his parents decide to leave the city temporarily and the whole family moves to a farm near a rural village. The place is surrounded by the "monte", a huge humid and dark forest where his ...

This film (which often feels like a documentary, given its real life subject) is study of a guy trying to make it in the gay porn industry, but done with sensitivity, wit and thoughtfulness. Combining reality and fiction, is a compelling portrait of loneliness in the times of social media where there is no place for privacy. And this is evident from the very first scene of the film where all, a good looking guy is standing in a busy street and unexpectedly breaks down in tears. Lalo Santos. A good looking man in his 30s works in a factory in Oaxaca, where to fit in he has to pretend to be a married man and a machista, but moonlights by uploading hardcore images of himself to Twitter. He finds validation by checking the comments and likes. He clearly is in need of money and that is what he is trying to balance with the two worlds. Thanks to social media Lalo learns Mecos Films offers money for doing porn, they require a photo of the face and naked body with an erection. He likes to be s...

A romantic love story-ish set between a gay man and his straight (or bi) friend who reconnect after many years foes the base of this film. Things are fine till love comes in the way and things start getting complicated. This Argentinian film features primarily just the two lead actors and tell a story that we have seen before but then deals with it form the perspective of both men and what it means to them and their fears and where does that eventually lead to. It may feel repetitive at some points but thankfully the film is not stretched in finishes in just about 80-85 minutes. Single, handsome and gay, Victor, who is his late 30s by chance meets his friend David on the streets. It has been 15 years since they met and clearly they have some history. David tells him that he has just moved in the neighborhood with his wife and they decide to meet for a dink in the evening. This clandestine invite starts a new journey. It turns out that when they were in their 20s, they had a worried lov...

This is what the official synopsis of this documentary say - In the early 1970s, Argentinean homosexuals were tortured and imprisoned by the police or in mental hospitals. Some gays decided to fight. They joined revolutionary groups and founded the Homosexual Liberation Front. But the leftist parties weren’t ready for them. The film takes its name from the FLH manifesto published in 1973, which in the film functions as the center of the story of the hard struggle carried out by the LGBT community from the formation, in the late 60s, of the first group Nuestro Mundo led by Héctor Anabitarte, until crowning with Equal Marriage and the Gender Identity law. From five testimonies of protagonists of those times (Jorge Luis Giacosa, Guillermo García, Valeria del Mar Ramírez, Daniel Molina and Alejandro Modarelli), issues like  marginalization, discrimination and struggle in the most diverse fields are reconstructed. It was an interesting perspective to see a lot of background imagery and ...

Sublime is a moving drama about two teenage friends navigating teen years, nearing adulthood , full of age appropriate angst, offering a modern ideal of masculinity. We all have probably been through a phase at the same time in life when we had this inexplicable crush on someone we knew. However, if that happens to be on one of your closest friends, even as adults, we barely know how to navigate those feelings, but it's much harder when one is a teenager and inexperienced with such feelings in general. And this Argentinian film tries to show us exactly that. A decent coming-of-age film. 15-16 year old Manuel, called Manu by everyone, and Felipe have been the best of friends since they were kids. They are a part of a music band and are virtually inseparable. They both have girlfriends and Manu has reached a point where he is ready to have sex with his girlfriend, which is encouraged by Felipe. But Manu still awkward about the whole thing. He has a feeling that his feelings for Felip...

Historically now, I have started to look forward to Marco Berger's films since they have a certain homoeroticism in it and a language of it own, which is hard to describe in words. IN that sense, this film felt like a spiritual successor to one of his earlier films Taekwondo, in the sense that he once again focuses his eye on on the sexual dynamics of a group of straight men. Like his earlier films, this one is also verrrry bold, queer and homoerotic with penis shots and ass shots and all nudity in your face, but at its crux it is yet another look at how sexuality works. The premise is very simple. A group os straight friends have been invited by Artur to spend Christmas and New Years at his country luxury villa. We spend a lot of time observing the men sleeping, sunbathing, fooling around and, crucially, engaging in increasingly sexually charged pranks on each other, but all under the guise of heterosexuality. They record and take photos of these suggestive acts and share on chat,...

A gay man and a single father, is in his 40s is going through all sorts of crisis in life. He shares a complex and intense relationship with his daughter for many reason. This film is about a crisis in a man's life and his continued downward spiral primarily arising due to his loneliness and his inability to find love and stick with it. Our protagonist is impulsive but in desperate need for love. The film starts with a gay orgy, where we meet our man Santiago who has gone there for some connection but doesn't find it. He comes back home next day to his angry teenage daughter Laila. They have a playful but love hate relationship. She is mad because he didn't let her go to party and she gets back saying to him that the best thing in his life was his ex Luis but he let him go too. He suddenly decides to show up at Luis's house with his mother and daughter hoping to rekindle his relationship with Luis but instead creates. Ruckus and drama. We are not clearly told what went ...

This was such a nice, simple and a very subtle film. To be honest, it was a breath of fresh air which had absolutely zero drama and everything was done and shown with tiniest bit of hints. Nothing is in your face. Based in a small rural town, you can feel the pulse of the town and this is what made the film watching a very novel and new experience. And given it is barely a 70 minute film, it was just the right length for a film of this nature. Natalio is a school teacher and is loved by his colleagues and his students. The kids look up to him not only for his classes but for the extra-curricular activities he puts on. He is working on creating a school play. When an old friend Juani comes to visit, rumors start making the rounds in the town, which gets fuel to fire when Nataio and Juani sort of move in together in a house. They are shown strictly as friends with some string connection till one day they end up making out and possibly sex. Natalio also teaches private classes to a kid Mi...

Wow. This was a surprising collection of stories. Sometimes that little bit of tease, sexual tension is all that takes to get one going. This collection of six stories take us through an erotic ride of scintillating experiences of men in various forms of male bonding. Ari A young man who heads to a tattooist for the first of a series of appointments to create a design on his stomach. The intimacy of having another man’s hands on him stirs things and he starts to fall for the tattooist, but does the other man realize what’s going on? It’s a neat little short that doesn’t add up to an awful lot, but certainly manages to create a sense of sexual tension. El Primo [The Cousin] When a guy visits his friend for summer, he finds himself getting attracted to his friend's cousin, whose bulge seems to be constantly on display, but tries to keep his feeling to himself. In terms of creating sexual tension, this is probably the strongest of the six and I could feel it in my bones. It intriguing...

Movies in the name of political statements manifesting gender, arts and pornography is not my cup of tea. All I end up doing is roll my eyes and constantly winder why was this film made and is there really anyone out here who is going watch this and will have anything decent to say about it. Acually I am not even sure if this was really a ilm or a documentary. It felt neither honestly.  I tried to make sense of what I just saw, and I could not so the synopsis below is being copied from internet. Goyo Anchou's film adjusts that bombastic beginning to its plot: a kid falls in love with a member of an anarchist cell, where everyone conspired to undermine the system of sexist and classist inequalities. What the film builds from there (with its documentary images of riots and anti-patriarchal slogans bombarding the screen) invokes the ancestors of militant cinema from the '60s and' 70s. But while the legacy of that Argentine tradition protected a hetero and masculine perspective...

Even though the broad theme of this film is that friends and families should let the teenagers in their lives know that they care, with the hope that teen suicides can be prevented, there is a lot of underlying theme of sexual awakening with prominent gay characters and bisexual lead that I think its ok to review the film on my blog. This Argentinian feature focuses on the introspection done by 16 year old boy who has just lost his best friend. Zabo has just lost his best friend Pol who committed suicide. Trying to avoid grief, he is trying to spend him time with his friends. Since he has also turned 16 recently, a lot of his thoughts are about partying, sex and drugs. He starts writing a blog collecting his thoughts and things happening with him, sort of memoir. He has dated a few girls but none of them have everything that he is looking for in love. He realizes that the only person who has all the qualities he is looking for is Tomas, one of his closest friends. But Zabo doesn't ...

This Argentinian film is a story of a dysfunctional family (what family is not!) but seen through the perspective of their eldest son who happens to be gay. This film, interestingly, is not about coming out, but sort of how relationships change after that between parents and children and even maybe within the siblings. Manuel returns home earlier than originally planned for his parents big celebration of their 25th wedding ceremony. He secretly wants to ask them for money so he can visit his boyfriend in Europe. We find out that he had come out to his family sometime back. Even though everyone is happy to see him, he feels they are different. His sister is really happy to see him and they discuss various things. It's not like parents are unhappy but they just don't want to talk about either his sexuality or his boyfriend, despite various attempts by Manuel, which eventually frustrates him. Meanwhile, just after a day of coming home, Manuel's boyfriend dumps him leading to M...

It's hard to put this film in a specific genre. When it started, I thought this is going to be one of those unsettling stories about abuse by priests, but it turned out its equally a coming of age story of a teenage boy who explores his sexuality.  Teenager Ariel lives a seemingly quiet life with his father and sister on their picturesque farm in a rural part of Buenos Aires. He has been in a sort of relationship with a local priest named Omar. Although it was clearly the priest abusing the boy, the kid always confused his mistreatment for romantic affection. The first time Ariel sees rejection from the priest, he decides to takes it upon himself to free from their relationship. Ariel seduces a young cute farm boy Julio and again falls in love with him unknowing to the fact that he is married with kid. Omar on the other hand arranges parties with young boys that he pays to take advantage of and continues to abuse boys whose parents trust them with the seemingly good priest. Once Ar...

I have always looked forward to Marco Berger's film. They always have a theme of underlying sexual tension. The film are probably not for everyone, since most of them move at a very slow pace, so you really have to know some history of the director's work before you completely appreciate his films. This film was also good but somewhere left me a little underwhelmed. Probably due to my expectations, maybe. Having said that, the basic plot of the film is very unique, novel and something that I dont think has been handled before. Ezéquiel, 15, is left home alone by his parents for a month while they tour around Europe. His big house and pool make it easy for him to invite male friends, allowing him to test whether they’ll return his overtures. Frustratingly none of them does till he meets Mano, an older skater and they become lovers. Things seem fine till Mono invites Eze for a weekend with his cousin Chino. Mono suddenly disappears after that weekend. It's only when Eze recei...

This is an interesting film on the whole concept of a thruple. Bisexuality is at the core of this film and it at least asks all kinds of questions that people in such situation would have , mostly from the perspective of how society will perceive them. But sadly, the overall impact of the film is not the greatest. Th elove story somehow feels shallow. Nacho, an accountant meets Ana at a party in Buenos Aires and they get along well. Things become interesting when Sebastian, the bartender starts flirting with both of them. Both of them find this interesting. Noah is starting to accept that he is bi. Before you know the trio is spending a weekend in a nice big country house belonging to Sebastian's friend. Sebastian tells them that he has historically been dating women but on 2 different ocassions he had extended relationship with a couple and thats when he realized that its the only kind of relationship he would ever want. He says that he doesn't want to join a couple who i...

This film, in its spirit, reminded me of one of my favourite films 'Weekend'; although both these films have absolutely nothing in common. But in soul, interactions between 2 men, who have some sort of chemistry instantly reminded me of that. But the similarities just end there. This film is an interesting exploration of what life was, is and the possibilities of what it could be based on certain decisions we took or may take in future. Ocho, an Argentinian man, is visiting Barcelona on a holiday from New York. Wandering around town and on the beach, he notices a man. Later, while looking out from his balcony in the evening, he notices this same man strolling on the pavement below and impulsively calls out to him to come and have a drink. His name is Javi. Opposites attract and they hook up, have a great time and Javi asks them to connect again to hang out in evening. They both discuss life over wine and cheese. It turns out that Ocho has been in a relationship for about 2...