Contents:
- ‘AND THEN WE DANCED’ REVIEW: ONE OF THE BT GAY FILMS IN THIS YEAR’S OSR RACE COM FROM SWEN
- ‘AND THEN WE DANCED’ TRAILER: THE LH GAY ROMANCE PROMPTG PROTTS GEIA
‘AND THEN WE DANCED’ REVIEW: ONE OF THE BT GAY FILMS IN THIS YEAR’S OSR RACE COM FROM SWEN
It’s one of the year’s bt gay films. The rt is fairly predictable, but Ak fills Merab’s world wh enough other trigue to transcend the clich of one unrequed gay romance.
He follows his new iend to a gay bar that wouldn’t be out of place any other European cy, as the loud and flamboyant crew party all night, ignorg the slurs of passersby. I thk the protagonist of the film clearly manag to show the challeng of beg gay, an environment that is clearly not ready for .
There's somethg pretty powerful about a story of gay sexual awakeng put to the backdrop of a film that shows so many aspects of tradnal Geian culture. Wh that said, the real story here is about g of age and gay such a nservative untry, and there the film sh. It exercis rtrat by showg emergg love simply and hontly and not spendg a lot of time mockg the homophobic men who menace at the outskirts.
‘AND THEN WE DANCED’ TRAILER: THE LH GAY ROMANCE PROMPTG PROTTS GEIA
It do gets a nice ltle dig at the hypocrisy of the Orthodox Church by reuntg the story of a prit rponsible for "fixg" another dancer who had to leave the group bee he was gay, and end up havg sex wh him st is uniformly very good if not great, and uple of my favore scen were the moments wh the sweet grandmas of both young men. Meribu's talent for dancg is undoubtedly extremely high ("I will dance when I n walk"), but his brother potedly poted out, "There is no future for you", dividualism will be bound by iology; and In addn, unr the general environment of Orthodox Church and ancient tradns, homosexualy is also regard as immoral, and the crics mentned repeatedly that a homosexual iend was celly exclud om the mastream society.
Geia, spe beg Europe seems so far away and is, both geographil distance and only homophobia was on display here. When Merab's brother was forced to marry, disparagg mours and gossip were spread about his wife's fay possibly beg of Armenian the homophobia. Apart om Merab and Irakli, the only other gay people portrayed were shriekg drag queens and stereotypil and dissolute gays and lbians seedy clubs.
Many of the gay mor characters were portrayed as prostut. For director the one challenge is to shoot a film about LGBTQ issue and not to dramatize script, another is to take Geian film about the same issue and do not exprs a enormo wave of aggrsn to homophobia and to tch the balance.