Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "gay interest"

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Label Me *** (2019, Nikolaus Benda, Renato Schuch) – Classic Movie Review 12,722

Renato Schuch stars in the exceptional 2019 German drama film Label Me as Syrian refugee Waseem, who lives in a German homeless shelter, and Nikolaus Benda plays wealthy German man Lars, who lives in a […]

Nov, 18

Consequences [Posledice] **** (2018, Matej Zemljic, Timon Sturbej, Gasper Markun) – Classic Movie Review 12,694

The 2018 Slovenian film Consequences is a devastating, desperate, despairing drama, persuasively written and performed, especially by Matej Zemljic, who is brilliant as troubled teen Andrej, and Timon Sturbej, who is monstrously scary as gang […]

Oct, 28

Passages *** (2003, Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulos) – Classic Movie Review 12,665

Ira Sachs’s 2023 French romantic drama film Passages is a smart but spectacularly chilly film without a sympathetic character in sight, particularly its incredibly selfish, nasty film-director ‘hero’ (Franz Rogowski). Director Ira Sachs’s 2023 French romantic drama film Passages […]

Oct, 08

Strange Way of Life [Extraña forma de vida] ** (2023, Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal, George Steane, Manu Ríos) – Classic Movie Review 12,663

Pedro Almodóvar’s Western short film Strange Way of Life is over-produced and under-realised, with a lot of expertise put into something so simple and flimsy. But Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal go to it with […]

Oct, 06

The Wounded Man [L’Homme Blessé] ***½ (1983, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Roland Bertin) – Classic Movie Review 12,649

Patrice Chéreau’s controversial, heavy-weight 1983 French film The Wounded Man [l’Homme Blessé] stars Jean-Hugues Anglade and Vittorio Mezzogiorno in a kind of obsessive love story between a teenage boy and an older man involved in […]

Sep, 21

L’ennemi naturel [The Natural Enemy] ***½ (2004, Jalil Lespert, Aurélien Recoing, Patrick Rocca) – Classic Movie Review 12,648

The 2004 French psychological crime thriller film L’ennemi naturel [The Natural Enemy] is bleak, dark and disturbing. Jalil Lespert stars as a young French police inspector sent to a seaside small town to investigate the […]

Sep, 20

Beautiful Something *** (2015, Brian Sheppard, Zack Ryan, Colman Domingo, John Lescault, Grant Lancaster) – Classic Movie Review 12,635

The engrossingly offbeat and lusty 2015 film Beautiful Something is all about the need for connection and commitment, unravelling in one night when four diverse gay men try to navigate their desire for art, sex […]

Sep, 08

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