The festival du Nouveau Cinema
is off to a running start since yesterday. The FNC runs from Oct. 7 to 18.
My friends over at the FNC
(loosely translated as Festival of new cinema, featuring primarily original and
largely unseen works) are busily putting together the last touches on a
brilliant couple of art/Fall/film days that gently hugs our lovely city each
year. My fav queer film fag took a second to send over the queer picks for the
FNC. And though I won't be at the screenings, having seen them already, I will
be at a few other ones. Expect a round-up on K&K in the next few days.
Click titles for playtimes.
Bandaged
(Maria Beatty / DEU, USA)
Taking the conventions of film noir and gothic horror, Maria Beatty refines her
genre-bending erotic, lesbian cinema in a story of sex, science and love. (PANORAMA
INTERNATIONAL SECTION)
Le
Roi de L'Évasion (King of Escape) (Alain Guiraudie, FRA)
Alain Guiraudie's sensitive portrayal of a gay man experiencing a mid-life
crisis. Le Roi de L'Évasion is one man's joyful rejection of convention and
conformity.
(PANORAMA INTERNATIONAL SECTION)
To
Die Like a Man (Joao Pedro Rodrigues, FRA, PRT)
An exhaustive fictional study of a dying transgender diva. Fans of the genre
(think Almodovar without the comic relief) won't be disappointed, especially by
the luminous performance of Fernando Santos.
(PANORAMA INTERNATIONAL SECTION)
