Derek Winnert

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The Lost Boys [Le Paradis] *** (2023, Khalil Ben Gharbia, Julien De Saint Jean, Eye Haïdara, Jonathan Couzinié) – Classic Movie Review 12,603

Free spirit Joe (Khalil Ben Gharbia) is getting ready for his release after six months in an open juvenile reform centre. But the arrival of William (Julien De Saint Jean) turns his desire for freedom […]

Aug, 05

The Blue Caftan ***** (2022, Lubna Azabal, Saleh Bakri, Ayoub Missioui) – Classic Movie Review 12,521

The impeccable 2022 Moroccan drama film The Blue Caftan tells the story of Mina and her closeted gay husband Halim, who run a traditional caftan store in Morocco. They decide to hire talented, handsome young […]

May, 27

Été 85 [Summer of 85] **** (2020, Félix Lefebvre, Benjamin Voisin, Philippine Velge, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) – Movie Review

François Ozon’s 2020 film Été 85 [Summer of 85] is a gay romantic drama, inevitably recalling Call Me by Your Name, but this time with a very French spin. Ozon turns a somewhat novelettish bitter-sweet […]

Dec, 02

Love Is Strange **** (2014, John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei) – Movie Review

John Lithgow and Alfred Molina are inspired to give perhaps their best ever acting in co-writer-director Ira Sachs’s haunting and moving drama. Adorable, so sweet and subtle and touching, Love Is Strange really gets to you. Lithgow […]

Jan, 15

Get Real **** (1998, Ben Silverstone, Brad Gorton, Charlotte Brittain) – Classic Movie Review 616

Boy meets boy. Boy likes boy. Boy oh boy! School’s out and so’s adolescent Steve Carter (Ben Silverstone) in director Simon Shore’s 1998 movie. It’s a refreshingly sweet, cute, charming and compelling coming-out, coming-of-age, and […]

Jan, 03

Stranger by the Lake [L’inconnu du lac] **** (2013, Pierre Deladonchamps, Christophe Paou, Patrick d’Assumçao, Jérôme Chappatte) – Film Review

Pierre Deladonchamps stars in Stranger by the Lake [L’inconnu du lac] (2013) as good-looking 30something Franck, who one summer starts getting addicted to a cruising ground for men, tucked away on the stony shores of […]

Dec, 04

Maurice ***** (1987, James Wilby, Rupert Graves, Hugh Grant, Denholm Elliott, Simon Callow, Billie Whitelaw, Barry Foster, Judy Parfitt) – Classic Movie Review 450

Bookended by A Room with a View (1985) and Howards End (1992), the 1987 middle film in director James Ivory’s and producer Ismail Merchant’s E M Forster trilogy is adapted from the gay author’s most […]

Nov, 25

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