Cristian Mercado, Manolo Cardona in Javier Fuentes-León's Undertow The 23rd edition of image+nation, Montreal's lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender film festival, will kick off with a screening of Javier Fuentes-León's Peruvian drama Contracorriente / Undertow at the Cinéma Impérial on Thursday, Oct. 28. The World Cinema (Dramatic) Audience Award winner at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and Peru’s 2011 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar submission, Undertow features a love triangle with supernatural undertones: a married fisherman is in love with another guy. The film is described in the festival's press release as "Ghost meets Brokeback Mountain." Image+nation comes to a close on Nov. 7 with a screening of Medhi Ben Attia’s Le fil / The String, a Franco-Belgian comedy-drama starring Antonin Stahly-Vishwanadan (the son), veteran Claudia Cardinale (the mother), in addition to a dose of social commentary.
- 10/28/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Movie|Line offers up pre 1970s horror movie suggestions for Halloween
/Film James Franco making another poetry film. From behind the camera this time.
McN Halle Berry's Frankie & Alice to get Oscar qualifying release. Have I ever told you how much I hate the one week qualifier rule? "Yes. Shut Up," the readers shout in unison. I'm just sayin' movies should be eligible only if the year of their real release. It's the only way a calendar year 'future history!' eligibility system actually means anything.
Serious Film wonders where the critical bar is set for Best Picture nominees in the wake of the cool response to Hereafter. As some of y'all know I don't put much stock in rotten tomatoes scores as Oscar signifiers (partially because all positive or all negative scoring (the dread thumbs!) is an inherently flawed system for reflecting worth and even true opinion. Unless...
/Film James Franco making another poetry film. From behind the camera this time.
McN Halle Berry's Frankie & Alice to get Oscar qualifying release. Have I ever told you how much I hate the one week qualifier rule? "Yes. Shut Up," the readers shout in unison. I'm just sayin' movies should be eligible only if the year of their real release. It's the only way a calendar year 'future history!' eligibility system actually means anything.
Serious Film wonders where the critical bar is set for Best Picture nominees in the wake of the cool response to Hereafter. As some of y'all know I don't put much stock in rotten tomatoes scores as Oscar signifiers (partially because all positive or all negative scoring (the dread thumbs!) is an inherently flawed system for reflecting worth and even true opinion. Unless...
- 10/26/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Antonin Stahly and Salim Kechiouche
Remember last year's Meryl Streep movie It's Complicated? It had nothing on The String, the new foreign-language film by writer-director Mehdi Ben Attia, just out on video.
Malik, a closeted 30-year-old man, is the product of a French mother and an Arabic Tunisian father. When his father dies, he returns from France to Tunisia, to live with his wealthy mother, who is eager to marry him off to a woman. But Malik immediately has his eye on Bilal, the hunky handyman who works for his mother.
But the Tunisia of the film is a homophobic, classist, and racist place, rife with government corruption. Is it even possible for a rich, mixed-race aristocrat to love another man, especially one from a "lower" class — even if that lover turns out to be a secret, self-educated artist who, unlike Malik, has long accepted that he's gay?
As a drama,...
Remember last year's Meryl Streep movie It's Complicated? It had nothing on The String, the new foreign-language film by writer-director Mehdi Ben Attia, just out on video.
Malik, a closeted 30-year-old man, is the product of a French mother and an Arabic Tunisian father. When his father dies, he returns from France to Tunisia, to live with his wealthy mother, who is eager to marry him off to a woman. But Malik immediately has his eye on Bilal, the hunky handyman who works for his mother.
But the Tunisia of the film is a homophobic, classist, and racist place, rife with government corruption. Is it even possible for a rich, mixed-race aristocrat to love another man, especially one from a "lower" class — even if that lover turns out to be a secret, self-educated artist who, unlike Malik, has long accepted that he's gay?
As a drama,...
- 10/11/2010
- by Brent Hartinger
- The Backlot
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