North Sea Texas, the first Flemish gay film, stars Jelle Florizoone. Interview wh director Bavo Defurne, Producer Yv Verbraeken and Jelle Florizoone
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NORTH SEA TEXAS: GAY COMG OF AGE TALE (LGBTQ, GAY)
North Sea Texas A lonely gay adolcent suffers the pangs of unrequed passn "North Sea Texas," a poignantly renred g-of-ager om tyro Belgian helmer Bavo Defurne. * north sea texas gay *
Compare wh 'Get Real', and 'A betiful Thg' but give an excellent ia how gay's explore their world the 1950-1960's Belgium. A lonely gay adolcent suffers the pangs of unrequed passn “North Sea Texas, ” a poignantly renred g-of-ager om tyro Belgian helmer Bavo Defurne. Debutg director Defurne, known for his shorts celebratg gay love, took a risk stg a tr of age-appropriate newers, but Floorizoone, Vergels and Kortekaas repay him wh emotnally tthful performanc.
When the relatnship wh Go be physil, Pim is faced wh jealoy and longg the way of all first lov, but also unrgo particularly gay stggl, such as hidg your te sexual and emotnal self om fay. But that fay stcture also ptur certa aspects of how homosexualy was unrstood and explaed that were prevalent the 1970’s, when our story tak place. It is perhaps surprisg that a small gay-themed teen love story imported om Belgium is wdg s way through the Amerin art hoe circu.
It is ttament to the strong reactn the film received s gay film ftival n earlier this year. A gay love story featurg teenaged leads is not jt a rary cemas but at gay film ftivals as well, where the topic of sexualized young gay people is taboo. The are simple acts of fatuatn we are not ed to seeg films pictg gay relatnships.
NORTH SEA TEXAS, 2011
Recently, popular films about gay characters have started movg beyond the overarchg plot about society’s acceptance of sexual inty and the tricky navigabily of a... * north sea texas gay *
Of urse, we are not ed to seeg young gay love ever picted on screen at all.
” Even today, gay teenaged love is still the object of srn and shame. Mark Jam liv San Francis he has wrten about film for numero publitns cludg The Gay and Lbian Review Worldwi and The Advote.
BELGIAN GAY G-OF-AGE TALE
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Gay Directors, Gay Films?
gay, sexual, relatnships, feelgs or homophobic teenager, iendship, sad, adolcents or g of age emotnal, emotn, fay, movg or feelgs sex, sexual, relatnships, erotic or sensual surfg, teenager, iendship, adolcents or kids. I've rarely seen anythg great the gay genre but North Sea Texas is an example of a film I love. I'm pecially thankful for director Bavo Defurne keepg homophobia out of his hermetic narrative, and avoidg the repugnant "kill or punish your gays" clich.