Joaqu Phoenix to Star Gay Romance Movie, Phed for NC-17 Ratg

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

'Passag' is NC-17, 'Red, Whe & Royal Blue' is R—are gay films beg rated on a stricter sle? * gay movies rated nc 17 *

Pedro Almodóvar’s movi often provoke, but 2004’s “Bad Edutn” actually earned the director an NC-17 ratg for one scene which Gael García Bernal’s head is seen bobbg up and down durg a pictn of gay oral sex. As many are quick to pot out, Passag‘ NC-17 ratg reeks of homophobia, spirg wrer-director Sachs to ll out the MPA for beg “anti-gay, anti-progrs, anti-sex. The whole thg brgs to md the recent R-ratg for Amazon’s upg gay rom- Red, Whe & Royal Blue, based off the popular book of the same name by Casey McQuiston—self a massive h wh olr teen and young adult dienc.

To s cred, Red, Whe & Royal Blue isn’t y about the gay relatnship at s center and do clu a small handful of fleetg love-makg scen, but they are— this wrer’s timatn (havg seen an early preview of the film)—pretty tame and barely even show sk. Well, there’s one thg the two movi have mon… Are films that feature gay them and gay sex judged on a harsher sle? “We’re talkg about a select group of people who have a certa bent, which seems anti-gay, anti-progrs, anti-sex—a lot of thgs which I’m not.

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JOAQU PHOENIX’S NEXT PROJECT WILL BE AN NC-17 GAY LOVE STORY

Bent (1997) $496, 059Set 1930s Germany, this harrowg film featur a gay Jew who is sent to a Nazi ncentratn has an approval ratg of 73 percent on Rotten Tomato and won Bt Feature Film the Toro Internatnal Gay & Lbian Film Ftival 1998. Joaqu Phoenix is takg up another notch after Ari Aster’s “Be Is Aaid, ” teamg up wh Todd Hayn for an NC-17-rated gay romance film. It’s a gay love story set 1930s L.

The Los Angel Tim reports that Passag, about a gay uple (Franz Rogowski and Ben Whishaw, a.

We’re talkg about a select group of people who have a certa bent, which seems anti-gay, anti-progrs, anti-sex — a lot of thgs which I’m not.

TODD HAYN’ JOAQU PHOENIX-LED GAY ROMANCE MOVIE WILL BE RATED NC-17

It’s a gay love story set 1930s LA. (Image cred: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)Bent (1997) - Clive Owen, Ian McKellenAfter beg disvered and arrted by the Gtapo Nazi Germany, Max (Clive Owen), a proud gay man, is sent on a perilo journey to the Dach ncentratn mp where he is subjected to scribable horrors while still beg able to fd love.