Visto a Venezia81. Un nuovo film sulla Callas? Melochecche di tutto il mondo, armiamoci e partiamo! Il fatto poi che la regia sia affidata a Pablo Larrain fa ben sperare (anche se in questi ritratti di donne famose del secolo scorso non pare riuscire proprio benissimo). Il mio giudizio dopo la visione è molto combattuto. Ci sono cose che funzionano e altre per niente. Per esempio: stai facendo un film sulle donna più iconica della musica, vorrai essere un po’ fedele sotto il

Reading reviews of this film before I finally saw it, I often came across the term "glossy" ; frankly, I can't understand how it came to be: every frame is a work of art, combining photography, lighting, and costumes, and, finally, the beauty of the images is supported by a compelling, interesting, and unconventional plot. There's an intense sophistication intent on creating an atmosphere of elegance that is inextricably linked to the eroticism that pervades the entire film.

I had read very positive reviews of this film, and I really liked Dito Montiel 's A Guide to Recognizing One's Saints . So I was surprised to find myself watching a predictable film whose plot can be sensed from the very first images. Robin Williams , here in his last performance before his death, is Nolan: a sixty-year-old man leading a dull life, working a mundane bank job, well-read, and with a cultured wife. In short, a repressed gay man who manages to rediscover his will

A teenage love story, not particularly recommended for those who like gunfights or special effects. A film about youth. Slow. The three tenses in which the story unfolds ( present, past and remote past ) blend together to create a single movement whose protagonists are Matthieu and his pain. The genuineness and candor that characterize the film appear from the very first images, with insistent close-ups of the protagonist. The beginning of the story is followed at a very slow

Silences and bodies are the protagonists of this beautiful Hungarian film presented in Berlin in 2014. Sensual and tragic. A young footballer, Szabo, leaves his team in Germany because of an argument with a teammate ( and his terrible character ) to return to live in Hungary, in an inherited house, to cultivate his dream of becoming a beekeeper. He meets Aron while they're working together to fix the roof, and a physical attraction sparks between them, sparking a very complic

Seen in Venice 72 Winner of the Golden Lion Venice 72 This film left no one indifferent: thunderous applause in the theater and constant chatter in the bars surrounding the theaters of the Venice Film Festival. Even for this surprising engagement alone, the film hit the mark. A great direction for a story that didn't convince me, and I'll say this right away. What many who appreciated it considered a minor flaw, for me was fundamental: the story has too many flaws. To me, it'

Biopics are becoming a real genre, they are shot with skill and excellent scripts, seen and appreciated by the public and presented at film festivals. Among these there is certainly a place for this documentary on Divine: performer, actor/actress, singer, avant-garde artist, theatre interpreter. In the documentary itself, some of the witnesses refer to it as “ he ,” others as “ she .” Given that Glen ( his real name ) also wanted male parts and that Divine was just his charac

An enigmatic love story, filled with silences, unfolding across multiple time planes: past and present intersect, creating a single whole. This non-time is supported by the Eastern belief— repeatedly cited in the film —that a person, after their death, returns on the seventh day to say their goodbyes. Words are almost entirely lacking, and understanding the story isn't easy, even if you let the images lead you along and take you by the hand: you have to get to the end of the

The initial idea for the film comes from a news story: a boy, on holiday in Berlin, disappears after an evening at Berghain . Of all the nightclubs I've ever been to, this is undoubtedly my favorite: the music, the venue itself, and the people who frequent it. Everything is fantastic. So, I thought setting a movie there was a fantastic choice. The mysterious fate of the young Portuguese man, which was talked about in the newspapers, is fictionalized here through the character

Seen in Venice 83. Queer Lion 2026 Winner. London is a young Brazilian boy, bisexual, disabled, and quite poor. These prerogatives would already scare away most of us, cum fetishists, tired of watching films about hardship and poverty porn. Not to mention gender; even those who invented the woke movement have disavowed it. But the two directors ignore that and tell a story far removed from bombastic, high-flown, committed screenplays, sometimes bordering on pietism, but alway

Provincialism, a characteristic of Italian cinema that I usually can't stand, is one of the most successful things about this film. A fascinating and mysterious Catania is the setting for the wanderings of Davide, a very young boy who, to escape a family that doesn't welcome his homosexuality, decides to live on the streets with a group of other kids. In fact, the entire story is inspired by the life of Fuxia , a drag queen and popular activist in the Italian gay scene, one o

I confess to being rather disheartened by the number of biopics out there these days: one in three films now tells the fictionalized story of some more or less well-known character. The Imitation Game is an ambitious film: it aims to mark the redemption of Alan Turing , a scientist treated contemptuously by the British government, shortly after the war that Turing himself had helped the Allies win. And it is precisely in this ambition that the film stumbles: the desire to mak

An intense film, set in a theatrical setting, in which the director creates a picture of absolute beauty in every single frame. A series of sublime images ( the horizontal staircase above all ) that fit into the plot of a mystery that is revealed slowly and sparingly. It's a fantastic love story, especially because it's not a love story, it's something less and, without a doubt, something more. A confession to a murder in a reformatory is the trigger in a film that doesn't fo

It's impossible for me to define Matterhorn : it's a drama, a comedy. It's a surreal film, certainly, but with a very precise and determined narrative line. There is friendship, love, but also a lot of loneliness and intolerance. For the first twenty minutes, I didn't understand much of what was happening, but the beautiful images kept me attentive and engaged. Then, slowly but surely, the plot takes shape, until it becomes a clear and linear story: the story of two people wh

Seen at TGLFF31 Film based on the book of the same name by Timothy Conigrave which tells the story of the author's love story with John Caleo , which began in Melbourne , Australia in the mid-1970s and ended for both of them due to AIDS. A story of love, sexual experimentation and gay pride, it has all the characteristics of an LGBTQ film , balancing between melodrama and intimate auteur cinema. A well-told plot where the flashbacks, sometimes blunt weapons, are here very pre