S/D: Gay movies of arty qualities

I've got a chromosomal aversion to gay films of arty qualities infused with a special pleading, so I'm still thinking about my response to All of Us Strangers /

You're not alone in that, but it worked a treat for someone like me

Paul Mescal, though! I thought he was a wan little thing. Every time he chortled and looked at Andrew Scott I wanted to -- well.

First reasonably mainstream movie to feature one man cleaning up his own, er, mess from another man's chest?

I finally saw Saltburn. And I wish I had stayed home and rewatched Teorema.

something i’ll say for saltburn is i’ve never felt completely uninvolved in something “trashy” before

anyway, very bad! gorgeously lit but no one behind the camera is making images out of this gorgeous lighting! script is obviously intended to be Hilarious but it isn’t funny???? (rosamund pike doing her best)

https://t.co/k5HoOU1NLv pic.twitter.com/abH1tYD0tD

— Larry Fitzmaurice (@lfitzmaurice) December 27, 2023

Not much discussion here of Rotting in the Sun. I watched it last week and liked it, actually found it fairly affecting at the end. Won't say much because it starts out seeming like one kind of movie and becomes quite different.

There are individual scenes in All of Us Strangers that I found really affecting, and the performances were uniformly excellent, but as a narrative I'm not sure what to make of it.

I watched the trailer and determined it wasn’t for me.

Ha, I watched the trailer and determined no movie has ever been more for me.

Y'all should watch Winter Boy, a gay film of arty qualities released last year that covers some of the same ground yet is funnier and lighter.

I don’t think All of Us Strangers was meant to be light

That's the problem.

There really should be more light, funny films about grief

My problem mostly has to do with the ending.

There really should be more light, funny films about grief

― Wack Snyder (Eric H.),

I recommended one!

Hard pass then

Short read: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/all-of-us-strangers-bottoms-queer-storytelling-1235784736/