<p>An overlong but amg ic tale set southern Italy about gay brothers tryg to e out to their nservative fay, says Philip French</p>
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LOOSE CANNONS
Gay Turkish-Italian filmmaker Ferzan Ozpetek is up to his old tricks aga, and boy are the tricks old. * loose cannons gay film *
Gay Turkish-Italian filmmaker Ferzan Ozpetek is up to his old tricks aga, and boy are the tricks old. While has s moments, “Loose Cannons” (“Me vaganti”), clearly meant to be a funny tale wh self-help overton about always beg te to yourself spe what others want you to be, recycl every cliche of that genre, then, for good measure, pil on every cliche of the gay g-out edy as well.
The youngt son (Ricrdo Smarc) of an Italian pasta magnate plans to announce he's gay so that he won't have to take over the fay bs -- but his brother (Alsandro Prezsi) mak a startlg announcement of his own. * loose cannons gay film *
One day, Tommaso, the youngt son of a rich pasta-makg fay om southern Italy, tells his olr brother Anton that he’s gog to e clean to the fay about his homosexualy, but Anton beats him to , nfsg first.
Far worse though is Ozpetek’s reliance on straight/gay, prumably humoro sexual nfns, filled wh double meangs, that go back at least as far as Shakpeare. When Tommaso’s band of gay iends arriv om Rome to rcue him, an elaborate se is ncted to disguise the fact that they are homosexual.
The youngt son (Ricrdo Smarc) of an Italian pasta magnate plans to announce he's gay so that he won't have to take over the fay bs -- but his brother (Alsandro Prezsi) mak a startlg announcement of his own. Reviewed the Uned Stat on May 4, 2011Loose Cannons is a betiful movie about a young gay man a large, lovg and eccentric Southern Italian fay. His plan to ee himself om the fay pasta bs by g out as gay misfir early the movie, and the remag nety mut ver how his dilemma is this is far, far more than a g-out movie.
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Reviewed the Uned Stat on Augt 19, 2012This a h breath of air the genre of gay cema. Too often we are left wh cliche movi about the gay "scene" and we don't see films like this reflectg real life experienc of g out to fay and iends. As a gay man I would proudly show this to anyone I know even the on who don't necsarily support the gay muny.