Sudhanshu Saria’s self-assured but feature Loev (2017) is as much about the puzzlement of gay inty as ’s about the pleasur and risks of love.
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LOEV [2017] – A TENR AND SUBTLY POWERFUL GAY-THEMED CEMA
The uple qutn here is gay, but the movie never plays like a clamoro mentary on gay activism. Saria is both earnt and specific his layered romance between the two prciple male characters, but ’s much more than homosexual characters g out of the closet, acpanied by swoong mic.
The emotnal beats of the narrative may be specific to the ‘gayns’ of the characters, but there’s also a surprisg universaly the way their terpersonal dynamics and hyper-naturalistic teractns are signed.
Neverthels, the vere style of film-makg elegantly tak the central uple’s iendship/love to a more timate, unanticipated, and even wilr, India is a untry where the LGBT muny is not simply ostracized, but the Sectn 377 of the Penal Co crimaliz (nsensual) homosexual sexual activi.