Boxing Day Movie Marathon

For a long period in my life I collected Gay themed movies and many from foreign countries in languages other than English.  I probably have near to 80 or 90 DVD's!  Today I popped out 5 for a mini-movies Marathon.

 Starts out rather pretentiously as the actualized version of the protagonist "X"'s life.  He presents as a self-absorbed asshole who makes his living as an exclusive and well-paid hooker.  He has two roommates who complicate his social interactions and then takes on an older well-healed client who teaches him how to be a happy person instead of just a person driven and afraid. It's quite a wonderful story, really.

 A wonderful coming of age/coming out story.  Though my circumstances were very different, the emotions and confusions ring 110% true.  Lea Delaria has a supporting role and gets to sing as only she can.  The lead left acting a few years after this film was made and went to college.  He became a lawyer.  I hope he remembers this moment in his life with fondness.  He should.

 A one note act of love.  I dunno, scarcely an hour long, it's just one man's tale of how hard it is to become a dancer in a gay club when you are born skinny...  It is funny, but it's also ridiculous...which adds to the humor.  I nice background flick while completing dinner, too fluffy to need to focus too much on!

 What a joy.  This film is so sentimental and has many fine actors in it.  Never fails to bring me to happy tears!  Set in Montana in time when we believed in the myth of good folk in remote places like White Fish.  Kinda of like reading Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty and believing in fairy tales still.  Yet, I love it, like those fairy tales, EVERY time I see it.

FAQS is a mediocrely acted and well messages tale of where the misfit toys end up and how grace is better than violence in this world hellbent on hegemonies like family.  It's a film that is worth experiencing in spite of it's flaws.