And Then We Danced Is a Gay Romance wh High Stak - The Stranger

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’ TRAILER: FIRST LOOK AT GEIAN GAY DANCE ROMANCE AHEAD OF CANN DEBUT
• AND THEN WE DANCED REVIEW - GLOR GEIAN GAY G-OF-AGE TALE
• ‘AND THEN WE DANCED’: A POIGNANT GAY MOVIE ON GEIAN DANCG
• WHEN A FILM SHOWS GAY ROMANCE GEIA, GOG TO SEE IT IS A RISK
• AND THEN WE DANCED IS A GAY ROMANCE WH HIGH STAK
• PROTTS, ARRTS AND JURI AS GEIANS PROTT GAY FILM'S BUT

‘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.

‘AND THEN WE DANCED’ TRAILER: THE LH GAY ROMANCE PROMPTG PROTTS GEIA

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. 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.

‘AND THEN WE DANCED’ TRAILER: FIRST LOOK AT GEIAN GAY DANCE ROMANCE AHEAD OF CANN DEBUT

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. If you ask me why I will answer: In Geia plenty people are on the si of homophobia. They thk gays are some savage, immoral people whout fai or normal then there is the movie AND THEN WE DANCED.

AND THEN WE DANCED REVIEW - GLOR GEIAN GAY G-OF-AGE TALE

Director is tchg the balance, don't show any aggrsn, only tells that gay people are between , as normal as anyone and we only need to face that and to be film is kd and emotnal. Maybe after watchg this film people hnted by homophobia will rethk the issue.

One Of The Bt Gay Films I Have Seen From Last Year!

In every word, move, look, gture of Merab (Levan Gelbakhiani) I n see and feel an ordary young artist stgglg wh self-intifitn and experiencg first ia of portrayg gay romance such a nservative untry as Geia uld give the director Levan Ak many reasons to be moralistic and pretent.

‘AND THEN WE DANCED’: A POIGNANT GAY MOVIE ON GEIAN DANCG

Dozens of gay activists proudly marchg agast homophobia were vlently beat by 20, 000 protters, led by Orthodox Church prits.

WHEN A FILM SHOWS GAY ROMANCE GEIA, GOG TO SEE IT IS A RISK

Yet, spe the ntextual heartache surroundg s nceptn, Ak moulds a betiful recal of yearng and acceptance, nmng Geia's stance by joyoly celebratg gay love rather than directly chastisg a natn through a cynil narrative. Beg homosexual do not mean that you nnot dance better than anyone the film (And Then We Danced) the dance self serv as a magnificent settg for the life of Merab and Irakli, two handsome young men love. Someone tells sre stori about a homosexual acquatance who was sent to a monastery.

I me out of the cema wh a sense of this is always gog to happen; the persecutn and the stctn of gay people's liv.

AND THEN WE DANCED IS A GAY ROMANCE WH HIGH STAK

I was not uplifted by and although persecutn agast gays is acute Rsia and the former USSR I feel that this persecutn is like an advanced ncer spreadg through the whole body polic of the untri. It put the sexualy to homosexualy and for that alone, agast all rervatns I admire and rpect .

PROTTS, ARRTS AND JURI AS GEIANS PROTT GAY FILM'S BUT

But, I also know that like s neighbors, homophobia is prevalent Geia.