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The Third Sex 1957
By no means subtle. Abstract art, experimental music, foreign antiquities—anything that might lead one to contemplate the world from an unconventional perspective—are treated as nothing but a means by which homosexuals inculcate one another into otherness, a tinder for strange passions. Klaus’s abandonment of abstraction for kitsch representational art signals the victory of heterosexual normalcy. Rather than to relate to Gerda on his own terms (“dein Gesicht ist wie ein Auge”) he begins to relate to her according to the…
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The English Patient 1996
Very Forsterian in its politics. Reminded me somewhat of EMF’s personal life, and of those of his friends and lovers in Northern Africa.
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Carrington 1995
Gay trans masculinity in the style of Daphne Du Maurier—Emma Thompson is of course, an excellent choice. The way in which obvious reasons as to why a gay man and “woman” who expressed that “she” wished she was a boy and who seems to have been struck by dysphoria, might have loved each other are overlooked by biographers and Wikipedia articles is of course to be expected. The movie is beautiful.
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Die Fledermaus 1972
Simply a delight—the time just flies by watching this gorgeously choreographed, costumed, acted, and cleverly shot version of die Fledermaus
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