'Firebird' follows a clanste gay romance between Estonian private Sergey and fighter pilot Roman occupied Estonia durg the Cold War.
Contents:
- THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS
- ‘FIREBIRD’ REVIEW: STEAMY GAY COLD WAR DRAMA RELLS RSIA’S PAST ATROCI
- ‘FIREBIRD’ CAPTUR FORBIDN GAY ROMANCE DURG THE COLD WAR
THE FILM PUT DON’T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE: FIREBIRD, A GAY LOVE STORY ABOUT FIGHTER PILOTS
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‘FIREBIRD’ REVIEW: STEAMY GAY COLD WAR DRAMA RELLS RSIA’S PAST ATROCI
“After that, ” adds Prr, “there was a plat about beg ‘homosexual propaganda’. New gay film Firebird offers a fascatg sight to love agast the backdrop of war. Based on a memoir by Sergey Fetisov, the steamy Cold War drama honors this lost chapter of gay history wh a handsome renrg that only ocsnally stumbl unr the weight of historil accuracy.
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. 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. 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.
‘FIREBIRD’ CAPTUR FORBIDN GAY ROMANCE DURG THE COLD WAR
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.