Clapham Junction (2007)

This is a provocative and powerful single drama about the mixed experiences of several gay men during 36 hours in South London, and the devastating consequences that unfold when their lives collide. From a civil partnership ceremony to a heated dinner party, five separate stories are woven into the fabric of modern day London from school and work, to bars and clubs, during one hot summer’s night in the capital.

CLAPHAM JUNCTION is a revelation that is so true that it hurts those that didn't accept it. The roles played by Paul Nicholls, David Leon, Luke Treadaway and Joseph Mawle are exceptionally moving. A MUST-SEE for everyone!

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No Se Lo Digas A Nadie (1998)

Joaquín Camino (Santiago Magill) es un joven de la alta sociedad de Lima que tiene tendencias homosexuales, por lo que se ve enfrentado a los prejuicios de sus propios padres y al rechazo de una sociedad homofóbica y supuestamente muy conservadora, aunque altamente hipócrita. La película describe una serie de situaciones que le suceden a Joaquín, desde su adolescencia hasta la edad adulta.

Joaquín Camino (Santiago Magill) is a young man from the high society of Lima who has homosexual tendencies, a result of the prejudices of his own parents and the rejection of a homophobic society that is supposedly very conservative, although highly hypocritical. The movie describes a series of events that happen to Joaquín, from his adolescence up to the adulthood.

There's nothing much to say about this autobiographical-like film other than I thoroughly enjoyed it... smiled a lot... and even felt sexual on some occasions. Simply intriguing... pssst! NO SE LO DIGAS A NADIE (DON'T TELL ANYMONE)!

(In SPANISH with ENGLISH subtitles)

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La Vie de Jésus (1997)

Chronique de la vie de Freddy (David Douche), jeune épileptique, qui vit avec sa mère Yvette à Bailleul où elle tient le café Au Petit Casino, siège d'un club de pinsonneux, amateurs de pinsons qui concourent tous les dimanches et marquent à la craie sur un long morceau de bois le nombre de trilles de leur oiseau.

The chronicle of the life of Freddy (David Douche), a young epileptic, who lives with his mother Yvette in Bailleul who keeps the "Au Petit Casino Café," the seat of the Finches Club where the finches lovers flock every Sunday and mark with chalk on a long piece of wood the number of bird trills.

LA VIE DE JÉSUS (titled THE LIFE OF JESUS in the US), is one breathtaking film about the life of young people living in the northern part of France near the Belgian border. Its realistic and raw approach to personal differences, marginalisation, racism and love makes it a milestone winner for its targeted viewers.

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Into The Wild (2007)

This film is based on a true-to-life story of Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch), an actual student-athlete at Emory University, as told by his sympathetic sister Carine (Jena Malone). In response to his materialistic, manipulative, and domineering parents Billie & Walt (Marcia Gay Harden and William Hurt, respectively), McCandless destroys all of his credit cards and identification documents, donates $24,000 (nearly his entire savings) to Oxfam, and sets out on a cross-country drive in his well-used but reliable economy car towards his ultimate goal: to live alone and off the land in Alaska. Along the way, leaves his automobile in the course of a flash flood, to hitchhike his way there after burning the remainder of his dwindling cash supply. Taking an unintentionally circuitous route, he encounters Rainey (Brian H. Dierker) & Jan Burres (Catherine Keener), Wayne Weterberg (Vince Vaughn), Tracy Tatro (Kristen Stewart), Kevin (Zach Galifianakis), Ron Franz (Hal Holbrook) and many other unconventional individuals on his itinerary as he purposefully trudges onward to his final destination, arriving in the wilds of Alaska nearly two years after his initial departure. He starts living in a "Magic Bus" serving as a shelter for people walking in the area (though in the film there is nobody else). Resourceful, McCandless finds joy in living off the land, and begins to write a book of his adventures. Unfortunately, as the spring thaw arrives, he is cut off from civilization by waterways. As his food supply lessens, he resorts to eating plants. Although he consults a brought-along book about the edibility of plants, he confuses an edible and a poisonous kind, which weakens him. While he survives the poison, he is unable to find animals to hunt and he slowly starves to death. As he dies, he continues to write, detailing his painful demise as a dramatic denouement to his autobiography.

When I have watched it on the big screen last year, I was so amazed about the life Christopher McCandless had chosen. I got so puzzled because in today’s existence, all I see are people who want nothing else but power and wealth. I might have exaggerated but I know that given the chance, everybody would want to have both in their hands. So the question is… was he really for real? I have to admit though that he has given me some inspiration. The DVD is out now and I say that INTO THE WILD is definitely a MUST BUY!

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