Still from Gigola
Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival 2012 will screen ‘Country Focus – France’ package of two feature films and six short films portraying diverse queer expressions in contemporary French Cinema.
The festival will screen Gigola directed by Laure Charpentier and Le Fil (The String) directed by Mehdi Ben Attia.
Gigola is an exploration of the gay underbelly of Paris in the 1960s through the eyes of a suave lesbian hustler; and Le Fil is a bitter-sweet romance that’s plays on the class difference between a rich young man and a handsome young labourer.
Consul General of France in Mumbai Jean-Raphaël Peytregnet said, ‘It is a great honour that France is the country of honour at Kashish 2012. I wish this edition of Kashish festival great success and intend to be part of this prestigious festival for a long time.’
‘The films in this section are innovative in form, sensitive...
Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival 2012 will screen ‘Country Focus – France’ package of two feature films and six short films portraying diverse queer expressions in contemporary French Cinema.
The festival will screen Gigola directed by Laure Charpentier and Le Fil (The String) directed by Mehdi Ben Attia.
Gigola is an exploration of the gay underbelly of Paris in the 1960s through the eyes of a suave lesbian hustler; and Le Fil is a bitter-sweet romance that’s plays on the class difference between a rich young man and a handsome young labourer.
Consul General of France in Mumbai Jean-Raphaël Peytregnet said, ‘It is a great honour that France is the country of honour at Kashish 2012. I wish this edition of Kashish festival great success and intend to be part of this prestigious festival for a long time.’
‘The films in this section are innovative in form, sensitive...
- 5/15/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A new French film called Gigola is premiering at the BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival this coming weekend and it sounds like something that is right up my ally. The movie is adapted by Laure Charpentier from one of her own novels, and is set in "the sexy Parisian lesbian underworld of the 1960s."
Sexy? Parisian? The decade of free love? Shall I continue?
The Guardian gave Gigola a rave review, writing:
It's steamy, saucy, racy and suffused with the feeling of wickedness you might get from drinking spirits before lunch or smoking in church.
Lou Doillon is the star of the film, and she starts out as a young student, George, who is involved with her teacher. When her lover kills herself, George decides to do something rash, so she chops her hair, acquires a cane and becomes a "Gigola," aka a female gigolo.
This film has a lot of sex,...
Sexy? Parisian? The decade of free love? Shall I continue?
The Guardian gave Gigola a rave review, writing:
It's steamy, saucy, racy and suffused with the feeling of wickedness you might get from drinking spirits before lunch or smoking in church.
Lou Doillon is the star of the film, and she starts out as a young student, George, who is involved with her teacher. When her lover kills herself, George decides to do something rash, so she chops her hair, acquires a cane and becomes a "Gigola," aka a female gigolo.
This film has a lot of sex,...
- 3/30/2011
- by Trish Bendix
- AfterEllen.com
Laure Charpentier's melodrama follows a charismatic young girl on a steamy ride through the lesbian underworld of 60s Paris
This week sees the beginning of the 25th London Lesbian and Gay film festival, an event that has always seemed to me to have a completely admirable emphasis on mischief, enjoyment and fun. And perhaps no film in this year's festival exemplifies this like the extraordinary lesbian crime melodrama Gigola, set in 60s Paris criminal underworld, adapted and directed by Laure Charpentier from her own novels.
Gigola has some highbrow credentials. It features big acting names like Thierry Lhermitte and Almodóvar stalwart Marisa Paredes and is shot by Theo Angelopoulos's cinematographer, Yorgos Arvanitis – but it really is a fantastically naughty, silly and enjoyable film: uncompromisingly camp in its seriousness and high passion, and one of the very few movies that could be called "pulp" cinema. It's steamy, saucy, racy...
This week sees the beginning of the 25th London Lesbian and Gay film festival, an event that has always seemed to me to have a completely admirable emphasis on mischief, enjoyment and fun. And perhaps no film in this year's festival exemplifies this like the extraordinary lesbian crime melodrama Gigola, set in 60s Paris criminal underworld, adapted and directed by Laure Charpentier from her own novels.
Gigola has some highbrow credentials. It features big acting names like Thierry Lhermitte and Almodóvar stalwart Marisa Paredes and is shot by Theo Angelopoulos's cinematographer, Yorgos Arvanitis – but it really is a fantastically naughty, silly and enjoyable film: uncompromisingly camp in its seriousness and high passion, and one of the very few movies that could be called "pulp" cinema. It's steamy, saucy, racy...
- 3/30/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
With the Un Certain Regard category pretty much complete, we can now focus our attention on next week's announcements for the sidebar sections of the Director's Fortnight and Critic's Week. I've listed a whopping 26 films and I'm confident that several will show up in the approximate 30 or so feature films with many first-time works that will make up both sections (put together). - With the Un Certain Regard category pretty much complete, we can now focus our attention on next week's announcements for the sidebar sections of the Director's Fortnight and Critic's Week. I've listed a whopping 26 films and I'm confident that several will show up in the approximate 30 or so feature films with many first-time works that will make up both sections (put together). The Critic's Week will see the arrival of Isabelle Huppert once again this year, in Marc Fitoussi's Copacabana. 22nd of May - Koen...
- 4/16/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Until women reach a 50-50 parity with men directors, my mission continues to count the women directors in upcoming and recent film festivals (and an occasional informal glance at what’s selling in the markets). Women’s films in Berlin reflect women’s place in the world both in content and in the numbers of women represented as directors, producers, writers, etc. John Cooper of Sundance stresses the increasing and possibly 50-50 parity of women producers, but I am looking at the directors. As March is Women’s History Month (and all the other months are Men’s History Month according to Gloria Steinem’s L.A. Times Article of March 4, 2010) this blog is in honor of all women everywhere.
Congratulations to Kathryn Bigelow for winning the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture. La Times puts into perspective the fact that the Best Director Oscar went to Kathryn Bigelow...
Congratulations to Kathryn Bigelow for winning the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture. La Times puts into perspective the fact that the Best Director Oscar went to Kathryn Bigelow...
- 3/8/2010
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
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