Brazilian film The Way He Looks is a trailblazg look at gay youth

Contents:

• 'THE WAY HE LOOKS' DIRECTOR DANIEL RIBEIRO TALKS GAY MOVIE
• WEEKEND STREAM: ‘THE WAY HE LOOKS,’ A GEM FROM NETFLIX’S GAY & LBIAN SECTN
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

'THE WAY HE LOOKS' DIRECTOR DANIEL RIBEIRO TALKS GAY MOVIE

The fact that a disabled person had gay feelgs, was pleasantly llateral, not prevailg - we jt obta a nice view of teens' dreams vs. Sometim gay men regnize each other as boys who were once lonely; aaid to say what exced them (or speak to who exced them); and sred to be themselv. This stant regnn--and stant empathy--might be changg as society be more acceptg of gay humany but n also bee the basis of solidary and, the se of the new Brazilian film The Way He Looks, an ocsn of ep feelg.

As a wishful fictnal nstct of our own youth, he may be a product of this open-tolerance, pro-gay era, but this aspect of personaly reprents an enuragg cultural fact: The Way He Looks should be a big h and should forever dispel the tenncy towards self-loathg monizatn that s so many movi about gays that pretend to be "hont" but simply give to shame, even when the filmmakers themselv should know better--like Gregg Araki and his unpalatable Myster Sk (unmysterly praised by the unevolved stat quo mastream media). The Way He Looks reprents the birth of gay self-acceptance on the mastream screen. (If you thk this happened already you're misreadg Hollywood's var gay py parti.

) How Leonardo manag his shaken iendship wh Gvanna and negotiat the feelgs Gabriel keeps secret is a ttament to gay humany. ") By unverg youthful gayns, director Ribeiro and actor Lobo portray the root of passn.

WEEKEND STREAM: ‘THE WAY HE LOOKS,’ A GEM FROM NETFLIX’S GAY & LBIAN SECTN

Though the tone is different, this is a pann piece to Franis Ozon's masterly Young & Betiful, which was about a heterosexual girl's troubled disvery of erotic feelgs (although her seemgly gay younger brother suggted an emotnal tw).

Leonardo monstrat the self-sufficiency gay men learn as an everyday necsy. The film displays non-mdl empathy for a gay youth's pennce and nocence. This may be the first feature to trace wh humor and passn how hard is to be gay, bld and love wh a boy you've never actually seen.

So they bee a new fay, a gay uple raisg a 10-year-old. Fally, how has the environment for gays Brazil changed recent years?

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

We have been fluenced by Amerin televisn, also by our own soap operas, which have gay characters. I remember a TV soap opera wh two young gay characters who were viewed as iends om the begng, so everybody liked them by the time the show's wrer had them e out.

Now you go to schools and there are a lot more gay teens who are fortable wh the way they look and drs. If you’ve watched as much LGBT cema as me, you would know two thgs for sure: you’re fely gay, and gay g-of-age dramas n often be very, well, dramatic. But the lovely Brazilian film The Way He Looks, the protagonist’s homosexualy is not an overwrought plot pot, and more notably, neher is the fact that he is bld.