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“Un chant d’amour” (1950) Director: Jean Genet A study of codependency and toxic attraction, it features an all female cast while examining Fassbinder’s own tortured attraction to a young male actor.
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Recalling Jean Genet’s “The Maids,” Petra plays dress up in a series of wigs in her claustrophobic apartment bedroom, living out her fantasies of control and losing her sway over a young model. To this day, the film remains the best use of its namesake Turtles song “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant” (1972) Director: Rainier Werner Fassbinderīased on Fassbinder’s play of the same name, this tale of obsession and power between the titular fashion designer and her roommate is something of a fashion show. Fai and Po-Wing make up and break up across continents, but can’t seem to shake each other’s influence or forge any other meaningful connections. If you liked “Normal People,” you’ll probably like this pair’s dynamic. They split soon after, but then, this classic of New Queer Cinema hints that wherever you go, there you are. Hong Kong couple Ho Po-Wing and Lai Yiu-Fai maybe shouldn’t have taken that trip to Buenos Aires.
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Where to watch: Criterion Channel, Kanopy Not rated - would be an R “Happy Together” (1997) Director: Wong Kar-wai The film is a bold full-length debut, with a real-time sex scene that prefigures “Blue is the Warmest Color” - without that meddlesome male gaze. Alone in her room she repaints her furniture, writes a letter, gorges on sugar and then leaves to take lovers: first a man, then a woman (her ex). Ruby Rich, Akerman’s first feature film stars herself as an aimless young woman who doesn’t do all that much. Named the “cinematic Rosetta Stone of female sexuality” by B. Where to watch: Criterion Channel Not rated - the equivalent of NC-17 “Je, tu, il, elle” (1974) Director: Chantal Akerman Jenkins’ finely-calibrated colors and tones deliver a painterly meditation on black masculinity, both toxic and tender, as Chiron comes to accept love. Divided into three parts, “Moonlight” follows Miami native Chiron as he grows from a lonely, neglected child to a young man hardened by years of bullying and abuse. Where to watch: Netflix, Amazon Prime, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu Rated R Here are our picks for some of the best LGBTQ films to watch during Pride - that aren’t the ever popular (but still good) “Call Me by Your Name.” “Moonlight” (2016) Director: Barry Jenkins With all the tumult and uncertainty, we should be sure to take time for ourselves, even if it’s just for the length of a movie. Meanwhile, Pride parades have been cancelled as we face a pandemic and a nationwide reckoning with racism. JK Rowling has decided to pen a manifesto insisting on the saliency of “biological sex” - to the grief of many fans - and thousand mobilized across the nation for Black Trans Lives Matter rallies. At the same time, the Supreme Court made a historic ruling in defense of queer people’s right to employment. The Trump administration revoked Obama-era health care protections for transgender patients.