O Fantasma (2000)

Este filme é sobre o totalitário de um corpo e a sua impotência. É esse o percurso de Sérgio (Ricardo Meneses), cantoneiro de profissão, que percorre os labirintos do lixo de Lisboa, limpando a cidade, em rotas que ninguém conhece, dos despojos que os outros deixaram. É isso que faz dele uma presença invisível, um “fantasma.”

This is a film about the totalitarian wish of a body and its impotence... Sérgio (Ricardo Meneses), a garbage collector goes through the labyrinths of the garbage of Lisbon, cleaning the city, in routes that nobody knows, keeping garbage items that interests him. There seems to be an invisible presence in his being that dictates what he does... is it “ghost?”

O FANTASMA is an extraordinary psychological film... it’s about one’s deepest fantasy. Its explicitness was entirely appropriate and not pornographic as pornography depicted self-denial. The lead actor’s innocent handsomeness will evoke either empathy or desire or both...

(In PORTUGUESE with ENGLISH subtitles)

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Komrades (2003)

5 лет заняло у канадского режиссера Стива Коккера исследование темы гомосексуализма в российской армии. Фильм основан на интервью, которые он брал у солдат и моряков в Санкт-Петербурге. Первого парня он встретил около крупнейшего военно-морского училища, и он согласился встретиться с режиссером вечером. И так солдат за солдатом, матрос за матросом - выстраивается картина жизни в российской армии. Некоторые курсанты лежат обнаженные на постели Коккера и общаются с ним в таком виде. Многие из них напоминают моделей студии BelAmi... Некоторые откровенны изначально, а некоторые раскрываются только под воздействием алкоголя.... В общем, фильм просто бесценен для любителей парней в форме.

It took 5 years for Canadian director Steve Cokker to make a research about homosexuality in Russian army. The film is based on his interviews with soldiers and sailors in St. Petersburg. The first guy he met was from largest Naval Academy, and he agreed to meet with him one evening. He shared what it is like and how soldiers get intimate with another soldier, a sailor with another sailor. In his hotel he met some other boys who are at ease being naked in his bed whilst telling their stories. Some of them have to be under the influence of alcohol for them to share their true experiences. Shooting the film is almost having the same experience as if you are in a Belami studio. In general, the film is simply priceless for fans of guys in uniform.




A documentary worth seeing... sometimes you'll laugh... at times you'll feel so bad.

C 'est La Vie (2000)

Comme toujours Cadinot pose un regard lucide sur notre univers. Provoquer les événements, avoir l'audace d'obtenir ce qu'on veut ou celui qu'on désire: c'est la vie! Se laisser embarquer par le mouvement général et volontiers subir les désirs des autres : c'est la vie! Réagir à ce qui vous blesse et casser avec le présent désagréable pour en faire un passé à oublier: c'est la vie!

Se créer un avenir en brisant un choix antérieur : c'est la vie! Tout arrêter et prendre le temps de jouir et donner un plaisir intense à deux ou à trois en tous lieux: c'est la vie!

Dans une cité, 14 jeunes hommes : ouvrier marié, buraliste, libraire, infirmier, etc. Tous, tour à tour, percutent ou subissent la réalité de l'existence. Laissez-vous pénétrer: c'est notre vie! Ce film vous entraîne encore plus loin que Double en Jeu.

C'est La Vie features fifteen French beauties, and is an extension of the storyline used in Double En Jou. The participants are not just actors, they are also characters leading double lives that intertwine through the storyline.

C'est La Vie means making things happen, and having the audacity to obtain what one wants even if it means stopping everything and taking the time to give intense pleasure to two or three people wherever one happens to be.

In a city, a young man, a married workman, a librarian, a nurse, and a clerk all in turn come up against the reality of existence! Full of Cadinot's usual sexual brilliance, this dvd was originally released in 2000.



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Doña Herlinda y su hijo (1985) Doña Herlinda and her Son

Doña Herlinda, una viuda adinerada y fantásticamente manipuladora que vive en Guadalajara, acepta en silencio el affaire de su hijo Rodolfo con Ramón, un atractivo joven estudiante de música. Cuando Doña Herlinda invita a Ramón a vivir en su casa (Rodolfo tiene una cama tan grande”, le dice ella) la situación se complica increíblemente con el matrimonio de conviniencia de Rodolfo con Olga, una joven feminista y empleada de Amnistía Internacional.

Dona Herlinda, a wealthy and fantastically manipulative widow who lives in Guadalajara, accepts in silence the affair between her son Rodolfo and Ramon, an attractive young music student. When Dona Herlinda invites Ramon to live with them saying that Rodolfo has a bed so big, the situation is incredibly convenient for Rodolfo to marry Olga, a young feminist and employee of Amnesty International.

Quite honestly, I like the theme of this very imaginative feel-good film but some parts are rather slow and unimportant, i.e., promoting tourism and culture of Guadalajara, Mexico, that at some point I felt like I'm watching a travelogue or something. But setting that flaw aside, it does really make one feel good when one's Mom is there pampering her son regardless of his sexuality. What's more wonderful is how she treats her "son-in-law" -- she seems to care for him next to her dead husband. A good weekend watch for everyone!

Sam Fooi - 心灰 (1999) First Love and Other Pains

男孩与寡居的姑妈一起生活。他的英国文学课老师是一个中年外籍教师。在第一堂课上，老师向同学门推荐了一本英国小说，福斯特的《莫瑞思》，这本书讲述了剑桥大学两个年轻男子悲哀的爱情故事。男孩被自己的老师吸引，四处追逐着他的身影。

A young man pursuing a degree in English Literature lives with his widowed aunt. On the first day of his class, his middle-aged professor requires them to read a British novel about a sad love story between two young Cambridge men written by Foster. And suddenly the young student falls for his professor and starts chasing his shadow.

An inter-generational and interracial affair that's probably still taboo to the West but not in Asia whereby some gays (and even straights) opt for "gweilo" lovers for some financial security reasons and for their being unique in colour. The plot is somehow flawed and the acting maybe amateurish but it's still worth watching.

Bombay Boys (1998)

This is an unorthodox comedy film about the adventures of three young men of Indian origin (NRIs as commonly known) and raised in New York, Sydney and London. All three arrived on the same day at Mumbai International Airport where they accidentally meet. Krishna Sahni (Naveen Andrews) is an aspiring actor from New York who wants to make it big in Bollywood; Ricardo Fernandes (Rahul Bose) is from Sydney who is trying to search for his long-lost brother; and Xerxes Mistry (Alexander Gifford), a musician from London who is looking to discover his "roots" in the land of his ancestors.



This film makes its statements in stylish and innovative ways not so common in Bollywood and beneath its satirical surface is a genuinely funny film. Remember that this is just a fiction feature of which intention is just to entertain. Certainly one of my favourite films from India...