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12 MERRY AND GAY MOVI TO SPICE UP YOUR HOLIDAY
Todd Hayn’ atmospheric lbian love story, Carol, has been named the bt LGBT film of all time a top 30 list that stretch to a Weimar-era pupil-teacher romance om, which was released last year and stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, me top of a poll piled to mark the 30th anniversary of the London lbian and gay film ftival, BFI behd Carol was Andrew Haigh’s 2011 film, Weekend, followed by Wong Kar-wai’s 1997 Hong Kong romance, Happy Together, and at No 4, Ang Lee’s tearjerker Brokeback was Carol, an adaptatn by Phyllis Nagy of Patricia Highsmh’s 1952 novel, The Price of Salt, which topped a poll of more than 100 film experts that clud past and prent ftival was a film adored by crics, cludg the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw who lled toxitg. Many of Italy’s arthoe cemas are owned by the church, which severely rced the number of screens on which uld be shown for s belated Italian release, acrdg to distributor Teodora Baker, head curator of the BFI archive, said Weekend was not about “gay issu” but real people and real suatns. This is the very bt kd of relatnship drama – gay or otherwise.
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