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The Best French LQBTQ+ Movies
June is here! To kick off Pride month, we turn our attention to the realm of French cinema and explore a captivating selection of the best LGBTQ-themed films. From enchanting love stories to thought-provoking narratives, these movies beautifully depict the myriad of experiences within the queer community.
By Sophia Millman
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE()
Céline Sciamma’s exploration of friendship, love, and art is an absolute masterpiece. Portrait of a Lady on Fire won the Queer Palm at Cannes and was praised for its historical accuracy, fantastic screenplay, and breathtaking cinematography. And let’s not forget the music: if you haven’t watched the movie yet, prepare to get chills during the bonfire chanting scene. Place in the 18th century, the movie’s about a young female artist (Noémie Merlant) who is commissioned to paint a portrait on a remote island. Adv, she gets to know the aloof subject of her portrait (Adèle Haenel) and eventually begins to tutoyer her (as in, address her with the informal pronoun “tu” &#; see if you notic
I'm tired of seeing the identical 10 films on every website's LGBTQ+ movie roundup (hey, I still love Call Me by Your Name and Moonlight just as much as the next person, so don't come for me!), so, as a queer person myself, I wanted to shine a light on some underrated movies that simply don't get the attention or credit they deserve. Below are 40 that I genuinely think you'll love, and if you desire even more suggestions, you can check out my running list on Letterboxd with nearly films. Enjoy!
1.Young Hearts () is a modern coming-of-age story about two year-old boys who fall in love for the first second. This Belgian movie is awkward and sweet and painfully valid . I can't rave enough about it, and the only downside is that it wasn't released 20 years ago when I was their age and needed it most.
2.National Anthem () is one of my favorite movies from the last few years, so I'm sort of hoping (well, demanding) that you monitor it. It's a tender, refreshing look at queerness and chosen family and what it means to actually belong. Too many people are sleeping on Charlie Plummer, A lot of straight male reviewers look at Leaving Metropolis and have a real problem with it because they say there is no way that a straight man would ever drop in love with a gay man. But having been in one of those relationships three or four times in my life I know it happens very much and I deliberate there is a level of denial and being threatened that goes on with a lot of straight people, particularly men, and we need to overcome that. ~ Brad Fraser
Toronto playwright Brad Fraser wrote several plays about jaded somethings sleeping with, mistreating and occasionally murdering each other. His work has more heart than that of Gregg Araki or Brett Easton Ellis as he understands most cruelty comes from pain. A recurring theme in his work is the seduction of men who identify as straight.
This is a common fantasy in gay media, in both pornography and narrative film. (And Eating Out films which are somewhere in between). It usually starts in adolescence as closeted youth grow up with no other outlet for their desires. If it continues into adulthood it can be called experimenting
Love App-tually: Grindr and Queer Cinema
Kyle Turner on how queer dating and hookup app Grindr has changed LGBTQ cinema.
GRINDR’S PRESENCE in gay and queer cinema after is a lot like the abstract notion of gay shame in gay cinema: it’s there even when it’s not there. It’s dull and quotidian, but nonetheless something that augments queer men’s ideas about sex and identity, on-screen and off. Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, the dating and hook up app used by many in the LGBTQ community has become a little boring, so embedded in everyday life that, not unlike other social platforms, the GPS positioning and data mining that used to be its unique selling point have become ubiquitous and normalized. Despite the app’s normalization, its function in the lives of queer men must feel fresh and necessary in the lives of queer men in film and TV, and has infiltrated those on-screen lives just as casually as the app itself.
There was digital dick hunting before Grindr, of course, websites like Adam4Adam or that were fictionalized as key sites of gay exploration in in mid-aughts fil
A lot of straight male reviewers look at Leaving Metropolis and have a real problem with it because they say there is no way that a straight man would ever drop in love with a gay man. But having been in one of those relationships three or four times in my life I know it happens very much and I deliberate there is a level of denial and being threatened that goes on with a lot of straight people, particularly men, and we need to overcome that. ~ Brad Fraser
Toronto playwright Brad Fraser wrote several plays about jaded somethings sleeping with, mistreating and occasionally murdering each other. His work has more heart than that of Gregg Araki or Brett Easton Ellis as he understands most cruelty comes from pain. A recurring theme in his work is the seduction of men who identify as straight.
This is a common fantasy in gay media, in both pornography and narrative film. (And Eating Out films which are somewhere in between). It usually starts in adolescence as closeted youth grow up with no other outlet for their desires. If it continues into adulthood it can be called experimenting
Love App-tually: Grindr and Queer Cinema
Kyle Turner on how queer dating and hookup app Grindr has changed LGBTQ cinema.
GRINDR’S PRESENCE in gay and queer cinema after is a lot like the abstract notion of gay shame in gay cinema: it’s there even when it’s not there. It’s dull and quotidian, but nonetheless something that augments queer men’s ideas about sex and identity, on-screen and off. Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, the dating and hook up app used by many in the LGBTQ community has become a little boring, so embedded in everyday life that, not unlike other social platforms, the GPS positioning and data mining that used to be its unique selling point have become ubiquitous and normalized. Despite the app’s normalization, its function in the lives of queer men must feel fresh and necessary in the lives of queer men in film and TV, and has infiltrated those on-screen lives just as casually as the app itself.
There was digital dick hunting before Grindr, of course, websites like Adam4Adam or that were fictionalized as key sites of gay exploration in in mid-aughts fil