Outfest 2007 – Friday
A few titles screening on Friday at Outfest, the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival:
Sean Abley’s Socket (8 p.m. at the Regent Showcase on La Brea) is described as "kinky, dark and joltingly sexual … a sci-fi/horror story about survivors of lightning strikes who develop an insatiable addiction to electric current." Joltingly sexual indeed.
The Outfest synopsis goes on to explain that the film’s plot revolves around a surgeon who is drawn to a sexy intern, who in turn introduces the lustful surgeon to a group that meets to "juice up." A downward spiral of electricity and sex addiction ensues. The synopsis makes the film sound like a morality tale. Personally, I hope it’s an amoral one.
In the cast: Matthew Montgomery (who also stars in Back Soon, screening today at Outfest), Derek Long, Alexandra Billings, and director Abley as one of the let’s-juice-up group members.
Russell P. Marleau’s The Curiosity of Chance (8:30 p.m. at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre on Cahuenga) is supposed to be a "madcap homage to John Hughes teen comedies." Not a good sign. That said, madcap homages — if they’re really madcap — can surpass the work they’re "paying homage" to by subverting the genre in question.
In any case, in this coming-of-age comedy, an eccentric, openly gay teen named Chance (Tad Hilgenbrink) must adjust to life at a new high school. He recruits a group of oddballs to fight a homophobic bully, all the while longing for the love (or body) of the school’s top jock.
Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills, and Todd Sills‘ Red Without Blue (5 p.m., at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre at Barnsdall Park in Hollywood) chronicles the complex lives of identical twins Mark and Alexander Farley, who, following a childhood "fraught with divorce, drugs and sexual confusion" become estranged in the aftermath of a joint suicide attempt. Eventually, Mark moves to San Francisco, where he meets a boyfriend, while Alex moves to New York, where he becomes Clair.
Red Without Blue won the 2007 Slamdance prize for Best Documentary.
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