Film Reviews by MD

After watching a couple of 'dance' movies, I've come to the conclusion that they're pointless and very boring.

Modern dance isn't totally silly like classical ballet, but has no overall shape and little coherence apart from a few abstract ideas. The dancers in the film keep asking the director what it's meant to be about.

The movement is attractive but essentially meaningless and the nudity rapidly becomes unremarkable like wallpaper. One for the determined only.

Unbelievable plot, D-list actors, wildly awful sex and violence, plus some laugh-out-loud and often incorrect subtitles.

I nearly took this out but with some fast-forwarding on the remote, it was almost worth it. Who on earth made this movie?

'Give me your dirty arse now!'

'Welcome to my nestle' etc etc.

I may pop it back in (I'm starting to sound like the movie).

The wonders of cinema paradiso ??

Gave this up after half an hour; silly idea, pointless and unerotic sex, and 2 leads who are sub soap standard actors.

How do they get money to make this rubbish ? There are way too many gay movies being made and three quarters of them should never have seen the light of day.

I'm gay, by the way, so I'm not being homophobic ??. But I've got a functioning brain and a limited life span.

At a mere 65 minutes, this still seems overlong. Much of it's like a home movie with poor sound. Little structure or script and really only comes to life in a huge scene at the end. Where do they get the money from ?

Overlong, pretentious with tricksy editing making it difficult to know what happened when. Ladies dancing up and down the beach with waffly pregnant prose on the soundtrack. Average acting. Cute cast but you aren't bothered in any case. They all hold hands at the end by the water's edge- let's hope they jump in and don't come back (lol).

Slow burner that packs a real mental health punch ?? at the end after starting in a breezy and attractive manner . Good performances from the young cast. Well worth a punt.

This is a terrible combo of soft-porn (without the porn), a rip-off of Genet's 'Un Chant D'amour', and a Mills and Boon romance. Zero erotic tension and embarrassingly bad acting. It reminded me of something and at the end I realised that the same basic idea is used in 'Great Freedom' , another more recent German prison movie from 2021 and the ending is too identical to be a coincidence. So maybe the director of the later film watched this in his hornier youth (bless) but thankfully turned out a near masterpiece of his own. Watch either of these other 2 movies which are both available on this site and leave this in the dustbin of history where it belongs.

Very gritty and convincing prison drama that shows how unexpected relationships can grow in the most inhospitable conditions. The final scene shows that the freedom gained by gay men like myself is obviously welcome but not necessarily a cure all for life's big problems of belonging and building a meaningful life. Zero restrictions on your behaviour are not a substitute for structure and groundedness. Great acting across the board.

A complete pile of doo doo. How in God's name they got the money ?? to make this tripe is beyond me.

There's obviously a lot of money for gay movies in Germany at the moment. In this underwhelming offering 2 bland, boring numpties drift round Berlin and reveal their narcissistic vacuity. I watched the short on the DVD from the same director which showed nothing of interest either so the main feature's lack of interest and imagination is no surprise. Quite honestly, as a gay man I have come to the conclusion that there are far too many gay movies being made at the moment and the overall quality has consequently plummeted. A lot of these directors have nothing new to say and are quite frankly getting money for old rope.

I don't normally bother to write reviews and I usually get something out of most things I watch.

But this is really one to avoid. Poor or nonexistent script, poor acting, hardly any structure. God knows how they managed to raise the money to make this in a poor country like Brazil.

Actually a lot of the Brazilian movies I have seen are a bit second-rate. The best one by far is 'The way he looks'. Argentinian films are way better on the whole.

This is a great film. More European than American with subtle, understated dialogue and really good performances from the cast. Needs to be watched at least twice and every time you see more little details in it. Beautiful to look at too with a slow pace that enables you to take everything in including the scenery.