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Lee So-hee (Korean: 이소희; born November 18, 1994), better known by the stage name Han So-hee (한소희), is a South Korean actress. She began her career as a supporting character in the television series Money Flower (2017), 100 Days My Prince (2018), and Abyss (2019) before transitioning into lead roles in The World of the Married (2020), Nevertheless (2021), My Name (2021) and Gyeongseong Creature (2023–2024).

Han was born as Lee So-hee (이소희) on November 18, 1994, in Ulsan, South Korea. She attended Ulsan High School of Arts where she majored in arts. In her senior year of high school, Han moved to Seoul to live with her grandmother, where she worked various part-time jobs to make ends meet. Han originally had no plans of entering the entertainment industry and wanted to continue pursuing higher education, stating that, "I got into a university in France, but I couldn't go because I didn't have enough money in my bank account. I had to have at least ₩60 million (approximately US$46,000) in my bank account to get a visa. I didn't have that, of course." While working part-time at pubs, modeling, and doing commercials to save up money, the head of the agency to which she belonged persuaded Han to try acting.

𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟕-𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟗: 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬

Han appeared in SHINee's "Tell Me What To Do" music video in 2016. She made her acting debut in a minor role in Reunited Worlds (2017). She got her first main roles in MBC TV's Money Flower in 2017 and tvN's 100 Days My Prince in 2018. Later in 2018, she starred in KBS2's After The Rain and made an appearance in Roy Kim's "The Hardest Part". In 2019, Han played a supporting role in the tvN series Abyss, alongside lead actors Ahn Hyo-seop and Park Bo-young.

𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎: 𝐖𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝

In 2020, Han starred in JTBC's The World of the Married alongside Kim Hee-ae and Park Hae-joon, in which she played a main role as Yeo Da-kyung, a young mistress. The television series ended its run as the highest-rated television series in Korean cable television history. Han received widespread recognition thanks to the success of the television series, and for her performance she was nominated for Best New Actress – Television at the 56th Baeksang Arts Awards.

𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏–𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭: 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬

In 2021, Han starred in JTBC romance drama Nevertheless alongside Song Kang. Later the same year, she starred in the Netflix original crime-action drama My Name as Yoon Ji-woo, a woman seeking revenge for her father's murder. For her performance in My Name, she was nominated for Best Actress – Television at the 58th Baeksang Arts Awards.

In March 2022, Han appeared in the four-episode Disney+ mini-series Soundtrack#1 alongside Park Hyung-sik. In September, she appeared as Princess Kayena in a live-action teaser for the Kakao Webtoon series The Villainess is a Marionette. The following year, she featured in BTS' Jungkook music video for his single "Seven", which was released on July 14, 2023.

In 2023, Han appeared in the 1945 historical drama Gyeongseong Creature with costar Park Seo-joon. The first season was released on Netflix from December 22, 2023 to January 5, 2024, and the second season was released on September 27, 2024. Han also made her film debut in March of 2024 with the LGBTQ indie film Heavy Snow, which premiered at the 38th BFI Flare. She is set to appear in upcoming tvN drama Two-Faced Lover alongside Byeon Woo-seok.

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In 2019, Han faced legal trouble after her estranged mother, known publicly as Ms. Shin, took out and failed to repay a ₩40 million loan with Han listed as the guarantor. A similar instance occured in 2022 when ₩85 million was borrowed using a bank account in the actress' name that "was opened arbitrarily [by Shin] when Han was a minor." Her mother was later arrested in September of 2024 for the operation of 12 illegal gambling establishments, in which "proxy owners" were used to allow patrons access to a a gambling website to play games like baccarat after purchasing game credits.

Han's agency, 9ato Entertainment, released a statement acknowledging that Ms. Shin had been involved in several fraud cases, including forgery, but clarified that their talent was not connected in any way.

𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬

In March of 2024, Han was spotted at the same hotel as fellow actor Ryu Jun-yeol while on a vacation in Hawaii, igniting relationship rumors. She confirmed the relationship herself on a personal blog later that month, and hours later, Ryu’s agency released an official statement corroborating these rumors.

The couple was confirmed to be dating since the beginning of 2024; however, they split later that month. Ryu’s representatives as well as Han's agency released a statement confirming the breakup. “They both realized that their roles as actors are more important. They promised not to waste any more emotions on personal matters,” it read.

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Han has been active as a model since 2016. Her advertisements include brands such as Ritz Crackers, CJ Group, J.Estina, Banila Co., Eider, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty, L'Oréal, and Giordano International. In 2022, Han became a global brand ambassador for luxury fashion house brand Balenciaga and Swiss luxury watch brand Omega SA. She modeled for Balenciaga's 2023 Spring/Summer collaborative campaign with Adidas. In 2023, she was announced as the global brand ambassador for Singaporean fashion house label Charles & Keith, French luxury jewelry house Boucheron, and Korean-owned sportswear brand Fila. Also in 2023, Lotte Chilsung selected Han as the new face of Chum Churum soju.

In 2024, Han became a global brand ambassador for home appliance brand Shark.

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Media Release: Reel Desires CIQFF 2024

TWELFTH EDITION OF REEL DESIRES: CHENNAI INTERNATIONAL QUEER FILM FESTIVAL, SHOWCASES DIVERSE GENDER AND SEXUALITIES  AUGUST 16-18, 2024

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For more information, contact 98415-57983, or email chennaiintlqueerfilmfest@gmail.com or visit www.ciqff.org.

The 12th annual edition of Reel Desires: Chennai International Queer Film Festival will be held at the Goethe-Institut, Chennai,  from August 16-18, 2024. Reel Desires features films, shorts and documentaries showcasing sexuality and gender diversity issues.  This year’s line-up consists of 20 films from nine countries, selected via a community-led review process. The principal organisers of CIQFF 2024 are Orinam and Goethe-Institut Chennai, working in collaboration with Nirangal Charitable Trust  and SAATHII.

Commencing Friday Aug 16, 2024, the film festival opens with Love and Let Love, an evocative short by Shailaja Padindala  (2024) that examines unconventional love in couples of two generations.  Other highlights of Friday include  Prayers for  Sweet Waters by Elijah Ndoumbe (2021) a look into the vivid realities of three transgender women living in Cape Town, South Africa, during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Ili-Ili (Little One)  by Clister Santos (2024) is a charming animation in which a pregnant woman seeks parenting advice from her two gay dads. It was part of the 2024 Five Films for Freedom selection of BFI FLARE, London International LGBTQIA+ film festival.  Friday’s feature film My Father’s Clothes (Anima: Die Kleider meines Vaters, by Uli Decker(2022), set in Bavaria, is a story about family secrets, gender issues and the turmoil of love - told as a roller coaster ride through animated and documentary imagery. Among the films on Saturday, August 17,  the internationally acclaimed  Jodi (If)  Bengal short  by Tathagata Ghosh (2024) explores the  tribulations of an arranged marriage that tears a lesbian couple apart,  suggesting that with a mother’s love, perhaps another future is possible.  Samlingi a documentary debut by Mohan Singh Aulakh (2024) explores queer lives in rural and urban lives in Punjab.   Hai Con Chuột (Two Little Mice) by Nguyen Anh Thach  (2024) depicts the tender affection between a gay man and his crush, on the eve of the latter’s wedding to his girlfriend.  Make-up Majhi Dhaal Ga (Make-Up Is My Shield) by Kunal Vijayakar (2024) is a short music video in the Laavni style of song and dance from Maharashtra. It follows the affectionate banter between a cis heterosexual man and his trans sister as the latter recounts her process of embracing her transness and decision to perform an exaggerated femininity. As part of CIQFF2024’s collaboration with the British Council, we bring you three shorts from the British Council Touring Programme series ‘More Films for Freedom’.  On Saturday, the UK/Nigerian film Egungun (Masquerade) by Olive Nwosu ( 2021) explores a woman’s return to her hometown in Lagos, and her new understanding of the people and experiences that shaped her. 

Saturday’s film screenings will be followed by a panel discussion Surviving Queerphobia: Online and Offline. Panelists, who include members of Chennai’s LGBTQIA+ communities and allies,  discuss the upsurge in homophobia and transphobia in recent months leading up to Pride month,  influenced by the “gender critical” movements and bathroom panic of the global north. Following the panel discussion will be a hip-hop party on the roof of Goethe-Institut, with spot registration and entry limited to 100 persons.  It will be DJ’ed by K. Phani Kumar and team.

The program on Sunday, August 18,  commences at 3 pm with Naan oru Pen (I am a woman) a 17 minute solo theatrical performance by Sowmiya in Tamil, directed by A. Mangai.  The performance draws on  poet-memoirist Maya Angelou’s Phenomenal Woman and Still I Rise, to present an embodied narration of un-making the body, lived experience and resilience of queerness, especially of a trans life in India.

Highlights among the shorts on Sunday include Ragasiya, a Tamil short on love and friendship by Chandrasekar Srinivasan (2024) featuring Chennai’s own Prahasini Arumugam as the protagonist. Love Positive by Tushar Tyagi (2024) speaks of love among two gay men, one of whom is living with HIV.  Melvilasam (Address) by  Hariprasad KN (2024) is a heartwarming documentary of Parvathi T.S and her arduous journey of becoming the first openly trans postwoman in India, and successfully changing name and gender markers in her government identity documents. They/Them by Phelian (2023) describes the self-realisation of a 49-year-old art professor of their non binary identity.

The film festival closes with  the Gujarati feature film Katlaa Curry by Rohit Prajapati  (2024). Set in a sleepy fishing village along the banks of the river Narmada,  a local fisherman, Raaymal, pulls a young man, Ratan, adrift in his fishing net, setting off a journey of profound connection and self-discovery.

As LGBTQIA+ collectives in India advocate for inclusive institutions and reduced discrimination,, we also work to engender change in hearts and minds, a task substantially more challenging than legal reform. One way we do this is by participating in and producing cultures that reflect both the universality and specificity of our experiences.

Reel Desires: Chennai International Queer Film Festival 2024, curated under this name since 2013, is the latest in a series of over 19  queer-themed film festivals held in Chennai to date, beginning in November 2004. The event is free and open to individuals 18 years and older.

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Eyelash [BAFTA Nominated 2021] from Jesse Lewis-Reece on Vimeo.

BAFTA Awards 2021- British Short Film Nomination

Official Selection BFI Future Film Festival 2021 Official Selection London Short Film Festival 2021 Official Selection Aesthetica 2020 Official Selection BFI Flare 2020

WINNER: Young Director Award: Gold Judges Jury Award WINNER: Young Director Award: Gold Passion Project WINNER: Young Director Award: Gold Changing the world frame by frame WINNER: Young Director Award: Gold Short film

⁣⁣⁣Directed by Jesse Lewis-Reece Poem by Neil Hilborn ⁣⁣⁣Produced by Ike Newman and Jesse Lewis-Reece ⁣⁣⁣Cinematography by Evangelos Polychronopoulos⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣Production Design by Lottie Geliot ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣Art Direction by Julia Minchillo ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣Sound Design by Oliver Mapp ⁣⁣V.O Technician Harvey Gunn ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣Original Score by Oliver Mapp ⁣⁣⁣Edited by Jesse Lewis-Reece ⁣⁣⁣ColouristJack Mcginty at @cheat_it ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣Gaffer Owain Morgan⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣Camera Assistants Benjy Kirkman, Jake Gerrard ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣Runner Tariq Khawaja ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣Catering by Terry Reece and Lesley Lewis⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣Special Thanks @armourylondon and @progressfilmco

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BFI Flare 2021 Film Review: Sublet ★★★★

BFI Flare 2021 Film Review: Sublet ★★★★

Veteran Israeli filmmaker Eytan Fox’s outstanding new feature Sublet, co-written with Itay Segal, opens with the arrival of a jetlagged and disorientated fifty something gay man, Michael (The Inheritance’s John Benjamin Hickey) to bustling Tel Aviv. He’s a travel writer for The New York Times who has come to uncover the “real” city over a five-day stay, subletting an apartment from a handsome…

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Boy Meets Boy Film Review

"Boy Meets Boy is a feature film about a chance encounter." Boy Meets Boy Film Review

Boy Meets Boy Directed: Daniel Sanchez Lopez Written by: Daniel Sanchez Lopez, and Hannah Renton Starring: Matthew James Morrison and Alexandros Koutsoulis A journey to find yourself Harry (Matthew James Morrison) is on a weekender in Berlin. His plans don’t extend beyond partying and hooking up with a different guy each night. He’s a devout fan of Ginder and tinder, sighting his preference is…

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BFI Flare 2022 Review - The Novice (2021)

BFI Flare 2022 Review - The Novice (2021) @FredaTalkingPix reviews #LaurenHardaway #TheNovice starring #IsabelleFuhrman @BFIFlare @glasgowfilmfest #LGBTQ

There’s only one thing on Alex’s mind and that’s winning. It doesn’t matter what she’s doing – sports, studies, anything – she has to come first, be the best. Whatever the price. And, in Lauren Hadaway’s feature debut, The Novice, that cost escalates. She’s a straight A student yet, despite no interest or experience in rowing, she takes it into her head to join the college team. Her ambition…

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Hello, Goodbye is a short film depicting an entire relationship in its first and last moments. 

Directed by Sarah Rotella and Written by Adrianna DiLonardo of The Gay Women Channel that will be showing at the BFI Flare London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival 2021.

Cast: Nadia Mohebban, Ali Goebel

🌈Read our review of the film on out Lesflicks website

🏳️‍🌈It’s recently been added to the Lesflicks LBTQ Film Database.

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POPPY FIELD (2020)

Dir. Eugen Jebeleanu

How hard it is to stay true to yourself while required to be an alpha male? A 100% masculine man, who has been expected to be one while wearing a mask of someone who needs and has to behave like a proper chap, dude, bloke...

We are witnessing the story of a young gendarme named Cristi. We are meeting him perhaps in the most honest and transparent moment of his life, when he is being visited by his loving and caring partner, Hadi. It is easy to notice, that Cristi is not fully comfortable with his sexuality in the first minutes of the movie. Hadi’s touch in the public place makes Cristi quite awkward and uncomfortable. Reluctance towards displaying public affection might be related to the fact, that the main protagonist works in the male-dominated field, with a big stigma and judgement towards homosexuality. While his partner seems like an open and confident gay man, Cristi is fighting his demons. He doesn’t accept himself fully, even if those closest to him do so, like his own sister, Catalina, who is excited to meet a man, that makes his brother happy. Surrounded by the close circle of people, who do not see being gay as any form of shame or embarrassment, he is battling between staying true as Cristi, the gay man in love and Cristi - the soldier of law and justice fighting criminals alongside his personality.

The story gets a bit more dramatic when we see the man attending the demonstration in the local cinema following his duties as a gendarme. On his way to the movie theatre, where the homophobic group of ultra-nationalists disrupted the screening of the LGBT movie, Cristi and his colleagues are discussing his love life mentioning girls he used to date. They assume there is something wrong with a guy, who doesn’t have a woman or can’t keep one by his side. They have no idea, that their workmate keeps a huge secret, each time he puts his uniform jacket on. This is his straight man’s caftan. He transforms into one of the men, he has to work with to avoid being excluded, judged and rejected. The camera focusing on Cristi’s face is giving us the feeling, that this man is conflicted, lost, trapped and maybe buried with guilt. Demonstration at the cinema will increase these feelings, when Cristi’s true identity will be recognised by one of the film spectators, which will lead to difficult challenges for the whole team of military police and Crist himself, probably the most.

This is a great story of a lost individual looking for himself. Conrad Mericoffer’s role as Cristi is a great performance full of sorrow, sadness and soul combat mode. His inner conflict and fear of other people discovering his sexuality make him a fragile, yet strong character. Cristi must show his masculine side as his occupation requires him to do so. His weaknesses and fears turn into frustrations and anger. Witnessing the demonstration, where homosexuality is called a mafia and Queer people are called shameful sinners, he realises, that perhaps there will never be an acceptance for his gay side. How can he serve in such alpha male-dominated territory while being a part of the community, which is constantly persecuted, disrespected and oppressed, especially by his colleagues, who think that gay people are disgusting faggots. Cristi’s actions are a result of him being locked in a cage. He might have the key to open it, yet he decides not to use it. Where is this going to take him? Back to the arms of Hadi, who knows him best and who can comfort him surrounded by walls of his home, where life seems more simple and ... honest.

POPPY FIELD premiered at the Glasgow Film Festival 2021 and will be shown at the BFI Flare Film Festival 2021.

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Benediction

This film, which in many ways is also about the scars of war, is a biopic of the British poet Siegfried Sassoon, of whom I haven't heard before, but which clearly was well liked, specially because his poems about the war.

The film has a very thorough and interesting dramatic arc, we follow the poet mostly in linear time from the time he fought in WWI to later in life, as played by nobody else but Dr Who's Peter Capaldi (completely miscast because his Scottish accent, although he fits well the real Siegfried), his life occurs amongst the rarified cultural English elite, in a particular niche community in which all know each other and within friendships and more intimate relationships are created and destroyed.

Siegfried wasn't a perfect man, one could argue he wasn't even a good husband or father, the film touches about these points without fear but perhaps with a tad too much reverence.

At the end we see the old man coming to terms with the good and the bad on his life, only to realise, in a very moving moment, that the horrors of the Great War have marked perhaps without him readily accepting it.

The acting is invariably very good, the production about the different periods seems spot on and the characters are credible, except perhaps for old Siegfried himself, it didn't take me long to find recordings of his voice and Capaldi's Scottish accent is a silly allowance that shouldn't have happened.

Anyway, I liked the film overall, it was also part of BFI Flare and deservedly so.

Rating: 4/5

Date watched: May 20th, 2022.

Venue: Cine Lumiere

The list of films in the LFF 2021.

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Culture Club: Watching REBEL DYKES by Harri Shanahan and Sîan Williams - Club des Femmes

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Gemma Chan Wore Zuhair Murad Couture To The ‘Eternals’ London Premiere

Gemma Chan joined Angelina Jolie on the red carpet for the ‘Eternals’ London premiere held at the BFI IMAX Waterloo on Wednesday (October 27). When I saw her take to the red carpet in this Zuhair Murad Fall 2021 Couture beaded hoodie crop top and flared skirt I was once again mesmerised. Not only by the from Red Carpet Fashion Awards https://ift.tt/3jGtNxe via IFTTT

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BFI Flare 2021 Film Review: Rebel Dykes ★★★★★

BFI Flare 2021 Film Review: Rebel Dykes ★★★★★

Harri Shanahan and Sian Williams�� feature documentary Rebel Dykes, which receives its world premiere as part of the virtual 35th BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival running March 17th to 28th and its Australian premiere at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival on Friday March 19th, is a rousing, celebratory, and considered examination of London’s rebel dyke subculture of the 1980s and its legacy.…

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The Greenhouse- BFI Flare 2021 Movie Review

The Greenhouse- BFI Flare 2021 Movie Review "It is refreshing to see these universal feelings and pivotal moments in our lives delivered on-screen by a diverse cast." #BFIFlare Read more...

The Greenhouse Written and Directed by Thomas Wilson- White Starring- Jane Watt, Kirsty Marillier, Joel Harwood, Shiv Palekar, Rhonda Findleton and Camilla Ah Kin More BFI Flare 2021 coverage here.  If you found a portal to the past, would you ever want to leave? Since the death of her mother Lillian (Rhonda Findleton), Beth has been unable to move on both figuratively and literally. She stayed…

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BFI Flare 2022 Review - Walk With Me (2021)

BFI Flare 2022 Review - Walk With Me (2021) @BFIFlare #LGBTQ @FredaTalkingPix reviews this one

“Finding your own path”, “being true to yourself”, “living life on your own terms” – all familiar themes from the emotional dramas of the 2020s. The words may not always be the same, but the sentiments are, and some of them are already borderline clichés. And that’s part of the problem at the heart of Isabel del Rosal’s debut feature, Walk With Me. Amber (Devin Dunne Cannon) has hit thirty. She…

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Great Freedom

This film was presented also in BFI Flare 2022 as the Best of The Year strand and it is rightly placed on it.

We follow an homesexual man in Berlin ( or West Germany by any account) , Hans, in a formidable interpretation by Franz Rogowski (so far the male actor I have found more compelling from the LFF films, but alas, I am only around half way), being jailed in 3 pivotal moments of his life, his crime is engaging in homosexual sex in the only place secretive enough (or so he thought) that would allow him to do so, long history short he's caught and he is sentenced to two years in jail, this is 1968, the winds of change blowing, but not yet strongly enough.

Once in jail he reconnects with a couple of men, one is a young man with whom there is mutual attraction and who has a direct bearing on his jailing, the other is an old jail acquaintance, Viktor, a Russian serving a long sentence for a crime that isn't explained until late in the film.

Once this scenario is established we jump back to 1945, when Hans was a young man and he is thrown in jail to complete a sentence for the same "crime", here is where he meets Viktor, who makes it perfectly clear he is not happy to have a "pervert" sharing a cell with him, but shortly after showing his frustration he realises that Hans has a number tattooed on his forearm and remembers, ashamed, that homosexuals were sent to concentration camps to be murdered, the new authorities liberated people all right, but Hans had to finish his sentence so he was thrown directly from the camp into jail with the complacency of the US occupying authorities. So a reluctant friendship develops between Viktor and Hans and this set the stage for what will come later.

The second time Hans is in jail is around 13 years later, in the late 50s, he is jailed for the same "crime" but this time the love of his life is also in jail, they remember their plans, manage to spend some time together, but things don't end well, Viktor, still in jail, takes pity of Hans situation against his instincts and this cements their friendship.

We are back at the end of the 60s, beginning of the 70s, all the back history of Hans and Viktor has been neatly prepared, freedom is in the offing, the decisions they take about themselves and their evolving relationship are dramatic and will linger with audiences.

The historical context is very well presented, the lack of humanity of the authorities terrifying, this was just in the 60s, not in medieval times, but gays were hunted like dogs, if they didn't end dead (actually one of them does in the film) it was a real miracle because many people wanted exactly that.

The end is bittersweet, it is made quite clear that gay people in spite of their new found freedoms would not find a society that truly would accept them as they are.

Rating: 5/5

Date watched: March 27th, 2022.

Venue: BFI

The list of films in the LFF 2021.

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BFI Flare 2021 is here! http://www.allnewsmag.com/2021/03/bfi-flare-2021-is-here.html