As we bid farewell to a terrible year, at least we n remember some excellent films tellg lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr stori, says Alex Davidson.
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A look at the stand out gay films, masterpiec, and near-masterpiec of the year. * 2016 lgbt movies *
In a time when so many of the topics addrsed by the film -- poverty, the school-to-prison pipele, homophobia -- rema real issu vulnerable muni and Ameri, is ed a privilege to have a film like PeopleMolly Shannon di over the urse of a year the film Other People. Gay edic characters rarely, if ever, receive this level of humany and CobraThe lurid tale of Brent Corrigan's early porn reer -- and the murr of a producer stmental to Corrigan's succs -- is the foc of Kg Cobra.
But this extraordary turn the history of movi and gay culture never ma to the mastream media, which always distorts sex, polics, moraly, and was also the year when mastream media, which typilly margaliz gay movi, sudnly pretend to fd a rare gem (see the last sli). Beg 17Only Andre Teche has the breezy cematic mastery to make a story about high school enemi (one French, the other Algerian) reflect geopolil tensn and simultaneoly reveal the mols for gay alienatn and human nnectn fay and social dynamics--the roots of sire and self-nfince. Film profsor and screenwrer Danny DeVo fac the tolerance of a lennial gay stunt more ncerned wh his own arrogance than life's of LoveIn Guillme Nicloux's Honor Thy Parents/Love Thy Child proverb and existential mystery, Gerard Depardi and Isabelle Huppert e to terms wh their ept issu when memorializg their gay son.