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: 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)
Cinemania 2023: All Your Faces, Along Came Love, and more
recap of the 2023 Cinemania Film Festival, which featured highlights like All Your Faces and Out of Season, disappointments like First Case and the Rapture, and some films in between, like Along Came Love