Thursday, April 28, 2016
On the road to Albania
Today's film is one more attempt to perfect the classic form of "road movie".
Various characters are met along the way and the protagonists, in this case two brothers search for their father who left them high and dry.
A Greek language film with plenty going on including the brothers; one a cute twink with a sharp mouth, one butch with a very nice singing voice. Both are more or less gay erotic archetypes. And there is a gay uncle who is a flamer with a heart of gold.
Not to load all this in but any gay man will see the campy humor and the attitude throughout.
It is an odyssey of a sort and the fact that the missing Dad is a right wing politician with a blond wife and two kids will provide a nice end of the road payoff.
This is basically a comedy with serious raw material. And it is quite good. I enjoyed it and would not mind seeing it again. A 4 out of Netflix5.
