Cannes Roundup

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Cannes and quecr$ ... idvocate.com writ. "ow. Alld 1111 • OAf' ' ••• 011 2 The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine Internet site out.com .. "Ij tuue tlnk. ..... __ . ... _ .. no. M_* •• Wrile ul CIdo_ .. _ .... _. ~-. --R .. d ...-.~ .... -_ ... " ..... ,.", ............ -- i Shill up 1l0'f!! 'orlhe_kly Advocal& Updal& ~-. ... _ ...... -bout 1'* ,rticle r.ls""".~mC..=,C"-- ::J"'. GO! I n silver se ... n N Cannes and queers With news of new projecls on the way from Stephen Fry and Paul Rudnick, the Cannes film feSlival promised fUlure fun as well as some milder moments of gay and lesbian desire for the here and now. Then there's {,.re'·~"sihll!, a French Ml!lm:I1fO with a scene in a gay bar that's both hard to take and a must-scc. By Michael GilU An Advocate .com ,.eIusIv' posted Jun1l1, "'" In London, Madonna was on5lage snogging a girl nightly. In Slovenia, the Sly transvestite pop group Scstrc (Sistcrs) was creating a controvcrsy -and looking great in their spangly airline stewardess outfits around Ihc Eurovi~on Song ConiCS!. But in Cannes. al the much hyped annual film festival. Ihere wC!'e queer films bUI precious few queer anists 10 lrumpetlhem The bcsI news ""as about future projects. Wriler -~"'-Stephen Fry (/'('//:"'.~ Friends. GosforrJ ParI;) made a splash with the announcement ofhis directorial debut. Hrighl Young 7M.g$. [, will be based on the Evelyn Waugh novel Vii .. ikJdks, and while C:'IIH .. " Cannn Film FasitYal hnp}lwww.advocate_oomIhtmllstoriesl8651865 cannes.asp Pagelof4 1I16J03 Cannes and queers ... advocate.com the bright young things have yelto be cast. Judi Deneh and Peter O'Toole have signed on for supporting roles. Fellow out Brit Isaac Julien (Joung Soul Rebels) announced hi! first feature film in I11O!"C than a Ikcadc: 1"ulo is a biopie aboul the transsexual Caroline Couey, a sueccssful model and Bond girl. Gay fave and native Frenchman FranQOis Own (CrimiMI Lovers) will be shooting in English when he helms The Swimming Pool. even as stateside ciJ\Casts still await his campy musieal8 Femme!. And writer Paul Rudnick (Jeffny. In & Out) redoing The Stepford Wi,'ts? Scanly prn-C'Ct. The mari<.el al earuw:, always provido:s gay fodder, with the deliriously titled JefUS Christ, Vampire I/unter unexpectedl y involving lesbian vamps. Nine DrudGuy GIIy! had a wdl-placc:d billboard to highlight ilS funny tille, and the producers even managed to convince OJ\C British paper that the movie was the scandal of the fcst. (Sadly, the best thing about it is the tille.) Local einemas were screening Brian De Palma'slalest, Femme Fatale. which stars Rebecca Romijn-Stamos 115 ajewel Ihiefat Cannes who happily makes oul with the striking Ric Rasmussen in Ofdcr 10 fondle away her jewels. (Wdl worth the cost. I'd say.) Finally, C8l1JIC;S itself began turning pink. Director Usa Cholodcnko followed up her brilliant lligh Art with the fill" more conventionall.aurel Canyon. Christian Bale plays the uptight son of ruck and roll producer Frances McDonnand (wonderful ilS always), and he's for(l.'(i to live with her while he and his fiancCc Stule in. The plot is thoroughly unsurprisinll exocpt for Mel)(lnnand' s easual references to biscxuality-that!leelTl s like .. throwaway detail (bi is cool!) until she ha$ .. threesome ... ilh her boy·lOy rock star boyfriend and Bale's "err willing fianc:ff (Kate Beckinsale). http://www.advocate.oom/htm l/sIOriesl86S /86S_cannes.asp l'age 2 of 4 111610) Cannes and que.:rs ... advocale.com Far more enjoyable was Mmlame Saw. a llmzilian film about !he turbulent, violent life of the three-time: Queen of Camaval ,.,hose offstage name .... as 1010 FranciSl;O do!I SanIOS. Ikfore finding his calling. 1000 (Lazaro Ramos) carves out a life in 19)05 Rio ";Ih a prostitute friend. her child. and a fey buddy not resistant 10 tIM: OCcasiOM I trick himself. The ftlm is a little lumpy, bUI Variety caughl tile lenor ofRamos'slcan, magnetic star tum when it described his performance as --fiercely proud." On the mild side was Blue Gale Cros.Jing, a Tai~:;c film about high school S1udcnlS and $oCxuaJ confusio n. Since one of the leads is a prell)' boy on the swimming leam. it threw us for a loop .... hen!he same-sex desire sprang from his sir\rrier>d, who' d ratlH:r hold hands with her best paltlum with her dreamy beau. An even IJlC)le W1CXpecteO love trians1c came in The Embalmer. an Italian film about a middle-aged dwarf and taxidermist who shyly vies with a prelly sir! for the attention of his vay tall and handsome new assistant. The film is !iIIOng enough 10 make the compelilion real (you don 'I actually know who will triumph) but it "hie kens out al showing lUlything olhcr than sublimatoo tensiOll belween !he men. Equally timid was the translator of one French film's title: A literal rcnderins would be The PU$$}' Wjlll Two Heads. but the festival officially designatoo its English lillc as the bland. meaningless Glowjng Eyes. Stronge, since the film itself is so very explicit-it's SCI enlirely in an adult theater showing straight porn. where male clients and trans"es!ites ( .. tJo "''Quldn'l pass for female in the darkest oralltys) have sex. With full fronlal nudity and actors apparently performing sex acts on camera. it's the latest film to blur the diSlinction bel .... een an and pornogrophy . But you tan be I%rt.ain dim:tor lacqucs NolO! had an in mind: llle aclOrs are gcncrally middle-aged and quite unshapely , so titillation isn', ,he order of!he day. (When one strapping hl1p:llwww.advocate.comlhlmVstoriesl86S /86S cannes.asp Page) of 4 111610) Cannes and qut~rs ... advocate.eom young man appears, ieu mifllCle he isn't mobbed.) A \rue oddball was 17 rima C.:t;iI£ Cassard. IlIlOIheT Freroell film. In this one, a widow bereft after the death of her husband finds iIOLace in her gay friends and a TM:W zest for life after watching men have casual SCl( by a river. I\'$ good 10 know cruising can be beJ1eficial for others and nol just the people directly involved. finally, there's Irre\V!:rsib!.t. by writer direclorGaspar No.!, the movie !hal really "'lIS the scandal orthe festival. Technically brilliant and s~ly the most ludacious film since Pulp Fie/ion. Noe's provoealivt: piece has an almost unbeanblc: rope SlCCne and an equally horrifie murder. TIle murder, unfortunate ly, takes place al a gay bar aIled the Rectum during one of the first scenes of the film. It· s a red-lighled descenl into hell, complete with heaving, panling grotesqueries and a crowd so jaded thai when Ihe protagonist begins to crusllihe skull ora man, inslead of running for their lives like any sane person they stand around MawedM by the beauty of the killing and practically applaud It the end. "The lurid and ludiel"OU$ aspects of the Rectum come in a film that simply can'l be ignored. It's told backward '13 Akmenlo and has a visteral, overwhelming power (and in the end a true beauty) that lJ1eans this movie will be: secn and those sleazy, absurd moments will have 10 be discussed and disxeted. Like the movie, they \;lin 'I just be dismissed . • Su.bscrib4 now vllo our onlinelo..!!IL I ... "" I "''''''''1 ~ I \11M [,ocno .... I 0. ... WOOl N I UnO. I ~ I e, .. _ I IT"'~ I_ I'" "'1""C_~ I~ I_ I!'!Mg ._ 1 hllp:flwww.advocale.com/hlmllsloriesfS651865 _cannes.asp Page4or4 1116103

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