Wednesday, August 13, 2014
A state of mind
Marco Berger has become one of the finest film directors who make gay art films.
Notice that I emphasize the art.
The depiction of gay relationships in a Berger film are true and warm and full of life at a level where genré pictures usually can not reach.
No doubt that today's film is gay from head to toe. Actually from the top of the two heroes heads to their toes. A romance.
There is a lot of yearning in this film. Berger's specialty. He is a master of sexual tension. The slow buildup. The beautiful denouement.
And ironically, not a lot of actual sex. Explicit or otherwise.
I had seen his other films and realized at the end of the "fest" that somehow I had missed buying this DVD.
Now remedied, this latest work can be placed next to its older brothers as part of a fine body of work.
Great music score too.
Oh. It does not take place in Hawaii. Hawaii is a state of mind, a connection that becomes clear at the end of the story. A 5 out of Netflix5.
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