Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "gay main character"

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The Trace of Your Lips [La huella de unos labios] *** (2023, Hugo Catalán, Mauricio Rico) – Classic Movie Review 12,837

‘How intensely does loneliness feed desire? And how much brighter does this fire burn when loneliness becomes isolation?’ Mmm, good questions. Director Julián Hernández’s eerie, sexually charged 2023 Mexican drama film The Trace of Your […]

Apr, 02

From Afar [Desde Allá] *** (2015, Alfredo Castro, Luis Silva, Jericó Montilla) – Classic Movie Review 12,814

The 2015 Venezuelan drama film From Afar [Desde Allá] is tense, engrossing and disturbing. It is an undeniable quality film as the 2015 Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Director Lorenzo […]

Feb, 19

Winter Boy [Le Lycéen] *** (2022, Paul Kircher, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Lacoste) – Classic Movie Review 12,811

Paul Kircher as stars gay teenager Lucas, struggling to cope with the death of his father in an accident that may or may not have been suicide, in the richly textured 2022 French teen drama film […]

Feb, 13

Reinventing Marvin [Marvin ou la belle education] *** (2017, Finnegan Oldfield, Jules Porier, Grégory Gadebois, Vincent Macaigne, Catherine Salée, Catherine Mouchet, Charles Berling, Isabelle Huppert) – Classic Movie Review 12,731

Anne Fontaine’s 2017 French drama film Reinventing Marvin [Marvin ou la belle education] stars the then rising French star Finnegan Oldfield as Marvin, a gay actor in Paris struggling to write and perform a theatre […]

Nov, 28

Where Are You Going, Habibi? [Wo willst du hin, Habibi?] *** (2015, Cem Alkan, Martin Walde, Tuncay Gary) – Classic Movie Review 12,725

The engaging 2015 German film Where Are You Going, Habibi? stars Cem Alkan as Ibo, a super-nice young German of Turkish descent living with his traditionally minded family, but leading a double life as a […]

Nov, 22

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

Sebastian *** (1995, Hampus Björck, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Ewa Fröling, Helge Jordal) – Classic Movie Review 12,721

The thoughtful 1995 Swedish drama film Sebastian [När alla vet] chronicles a teenage boy’s coming out. Happily, the main problems of 16-year-old Sebastian (Hampus Björck) are very Swedish: he has kind parents, great friends, and […]

Nov, 17

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