Firebird review – story of gay lovers the Soviet era is Brokeback the USSR | Film | The Guardian

Contents:

• ‘FIREBIRD’ FILM REVIEW: GAY USSR ROMANCE LOOKS GEO BUT THE STORY FALLS APART
• THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS
• GAY ROMANCE MOVIE "FIREBIRD" (2021)
• FIREBIRD REVIEW – STORY OF GAY LOVERS THE SOVIET ERA IS BROKEBACK THE USSR

‘FIREBIRD’ FILM REVIEW: GAY USSR ROMANCE LOOKS GEO BUT THE STORY FALLS APART

New gay film Firebird offers a fascatg sight to love agast the backdrop of war.

THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS

This isn’t a tale of angst-ridn gays; both men are at ease wh their sexualy, but the Soviet Unn is not. It’s an aspect that mak this an tertg pann piece to Sebastian Meise’s Great Freedom—part of which is set a siar perd Germany when gay men ntued to be crimalized followg the Send World War—and Arthur Dong’s excellent documentary Comg Out Unr Fire, examg the history of the treatment of LGBTQ members of the ary by the US ernment. There is an unniable tensn Firebird between s aspiratn to be a grty perd piece and s sire to be an exhibn of homoerotic beekkery, and I’m not sure the film’s director (Peeter Rebane) effectively signals to which si he’d prefer his dience to lean.

GAY ROMANCE MOVIE "FIREBIRD" (2021)

The disproportnate foc that gay romance films have on whe, cisgenr, mcular leadg men is a symptom of larger issu the queer muny, and ’s time we started to curate a more reprentative non of LGBTQ+ films.

FIREBIRD REVIEW – STORY OF GAY LOVERS THE SOVIET ERA IS BROKEBACK THE USSR

Also prent is the ‘homophobic gnt’, who mak a missn to ensure our lovebirds spend more time jail than they do each other's arms. The film's very missn statement is to tail the life of Sergey Fetisov, who is played wonrfully here by Tom Prr, and Fetisov lived durg a time and a regime which the two-dimensnal homophob did exist.