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The Way He Looks is a trailblazg look at gay youth

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'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.

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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.

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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? We have been fluenced by Amerin televisn, also by our own soap operas, which have gay characters.

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

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