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O Fantasma (English: The Phantom or The Ghost) is a 2000 Portugue explic gay-themed film directed by João Pedro Rodrigu and produced at the pennt productn pany Rosa Film.

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Unmasked: om s openg scene, João Pedro Rodrigu’s O Fantasma might as well be screamg “I’m gay!” * o fantasma gay scene *

O Fantasma gaed purchase on the gay-film-ftival circu, tourg succsfully for the first few years after s premiere. José thks a masterpiece, Mike don’t; though the film beg clearly aimed at a gay male dience might help acunt for , and speaks to José eply. He liv a homophobic culture ght wh danger but is ee.

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We also remark upon the film’s real queer gaze that is also a gay male gaze; somethg worth distguishg. O Fantasma is a film that will nfirm every homophobe’s worst views of gay men – and that partly s strength.

If you’re a gay man terted film, this is unmissable. Wh O Fantasma, Rodrigu boldly uned eroticism and fetish an opaque character piece that ti gay longg to social disenanchisement all while dangeroly flirtg wh the le that separat “narrative cema” om what many viewers would classify as pornography. In fall 2000, when O Fantasma was first makg s way around the ftival circu, gay reprentatn seemed to be a transnal moment.

The polil and athetic gas of the New Queer Cema movement had begun to rult a kd of broar cultural lcifitn, wh films that relied on certa mannerisms: that year we had the bland gay rom- signed to offend no one (The Broken Hearts Club), the wir-dience-anglg Sundance sensatn that ed queerns as a tactic for makg straight dienc feel unfortable (Chuck and Buck), and one noble gay poet bpic (Before Night Falls). And all were preferable to the scene Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famo which an otherwise nearly silent character screams, “I’m gay!

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