Author: gffreviews
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FrightFest announces Glasgow Film Festival 2018 line-up
Woohoo!
Finally got my ticket to the Opening Gala of the Glasgow Film Festival!
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
Would bring a tear to a glass een. Not for Marsha, ironically, but for Sylvia Riviera, who really needed Marsha as her strength and who loses herself after she dies, staying on the pier where they dragged Marsha’s body out of the water, becoming homeless and lost to drink. It breaks your heart.
Antony and Cleopatra
Mark Anthony really is a cunt, isn’t he? No matter how much of a dick you paint Octavius to be, Mark Anthony is the architect of his own demise, a spoiled child who turns on anyone and blames them for his own bad decisions, including Cleopatra. As for her, it feels like the play should…
Prevenge
A black comedy about a pregnant woman who believes she is being driven to kill by her unborn foetus in vengeance for the death of her partner. Alice Lowe is great in this, giving it a Inside Number 9, British comic/horror/tragedy vibe. Loved her Halloween costume at the end, like Kate Bush from Wuthering Heights…
The Handmaiden
Just out of the extended director’s cut of The Handmaiden. Ooft that, ladies and gentlemen, was a stoater of a movie. It’s actually surprisingly funny for something so erotic. I was expecting what you usually expect with something so exquisitely beautiful and stirring – that the trade off was a slow, langurous pace and a…
Ovarian Psycos
Gotta be 100% honest, this is the first documentary I’ve seen at the festival that I didn’t think was very well made. So many things were just not shown, leaving me to kinda guess or fill in my own blanks. It’s about a Latina cycling group in L.A. that has a pro-equality, anti-racism, feminist ethos.…
El Canto del Colibri
A documentary about Latino fathers of queer kids and their journeys supporting their children. Lovely just to hear voices you usually don’t, not in the sidelines of something else, but front and centre, main stage. Made me grateful for my own family too.
Major!
A documentary biopic of Miss Major Griffin Gracy, a trans woman of colour who was there during the Stonewall Riots and who has spent a lifetime campaigning for trans rights. She has lived a incredible life, meeting Frank “Big Black” Smith in Attica after the riots and becoming a lifelong advocate for prisoners, and opposing…