In queer filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud’s film Sex, two nameless middle-aged white men, both straight-married chimney sweeps, grapple with their views on gender roles and sexual identity in contemporary Oslo.
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Berlinale Review: Anthony Schatteman’s Young Hearts
Anthony Schatteman’s warm and lovely debut feature film Young Hearts is a rare coming-out and coming-of-age film about characters as young as fourteen. The film Young Hearts screens in the Berlinale’s Generation K+ sidebar.
Berlinale Review: Ray Yeung’s All Shall Be Well
Ray Yeung’s film All Shall Be Well exposes how quickly family bonds can deteriorate and LGBTQ prejudices surface without legal protections.
Film Review: Martha Coolidge’s Not a Pretty Picture
Martha Coolidge excavates her sexual assault in her creative nonfiction film Not a Pretty Picture, recently restored in 4K by Janus Films.
Film Review: Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers
Writer-director Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers is part ghost story and part romance, and it feels like a warm hug.
Cinemania Review: Stéphane Brizé’s Out of Season (Hors-Saison)
Fresh off its Venice premiere, we review Stéphane Brizé’s lovely existential crisis movie with a touch of second chance romance screen, Out of Season (Hors-Saison)