Outfest 2009: PATRIK, AGE 1.5; BANDAGED, El niño pez

Outfest 2009 hightlights on Wednesday, July 15. Synopses from the Outfest website.

El niño pez / The Fish Child (Wed, Jul 15th 7:15pm, DGA 1)
(France , Spain , Argentina, 2009, 96 mins)
In Spanish with English subtitles
video
Directed By: Lucía Puenzo
SCR: Lucia Puenzo
Writer-director Lucía Puenzo won awards – including two prizes at Cannes – and critical acclaim all over the world for XXY, and now the Argentine filmmaker returns with a lesbian romance that’s also a Chabrol-esque mystery thriller and a scathing examination of class differences in the South American nation.
Lala (Inés Efron, whose performance has inspired comparisons to the early film roles of both Sissy Spacek and Chloë Sevigny), the privileged daughter of a [...]

by Andre Soares | July 13, 2009   
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London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2009: BANDAGED, 57000 KM BETWEEN US

London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2009
Friday, April 3, highlights
Schedule and synopses from the LLGFF website
 

Johanna D’Arc of Mongolia

Directed by:
Ulrike Ottinger

Cast:
Delphine Seyrig Xu Re Huar, Inès Sastre

Country:
West Germany

Year:
1989

Running time:
165min

 
All aboard the Trans-Siberian railway where you’ll find titled ladies, Broadway stars, camp cabaret acts and a Mongolian princess who has come to kidnap them all. This sumptuous epic from Ottinger ranges from the obvious artifice of a studio film to an almost documentary realism when the film moves from train to the glorious vista of the Mongolian landscape. As the culture clash between the Western women and their Mongolian ‘hosts’ intensifies a sweet love affair blossoms between the princess and the young Giovanna, [...]

by Andre Soares | April 1, 2009   
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