Great Freedom review – powerful gay​​ prison drama​ ​set postwar Germany | Drama films | The Guardian

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• USA, QUEERTY: WATCH ‘EL PRCIPE’ EXPLOR CHILE’S GAY PRISON UNRWORLD
• GREAT FREEDOM REVIEW – POWERFUL GAY​​ PRISON DRAMA​ ​SET POSTWAR GERMANY

USA, QUEERTY: WATCH ‘EL PRCIPE’ EXPLOR CHILE’S GAY PRISON UNRWORLD

The new trailer for The Prce jt dropped and the homoerotic prison drama set 1970s Chile pulls no punch wh plenty of NSFW shower and sex scen. Film is an edgy and at tim nontatnal drama set a stutnalized world of homoeroticism, and is filled wh plenty of flh showg gngy munal showers, graphic pictns of sex (cludg rape), and btal prison guards who regularly engage acts of vlence agast the prisoners. RELATED | Paramount Is Brgg Gay Cowboys In Their New LGBTQ+ Holiday Film.

The Prce is an explosive homoerotic prison drama set a reprsive 1970s Chilean prison. “Evotive of Jean Ge’s Miracle of the Rose and Raer Werner Fassbr’s Querelle, The Prce plays wh classic queer prisoner behd bars motifs, blendg explic sexualy wh genue them of nfed affectn and longg…Strikg s damp clstrophobic athetic and powerful erotic imagery, The Prce is an imprsive look at sexual awakeng and humankd’s need for nnectnAn explosive homoerotic prison drama set 1970s Chile. Artsploatn Films, ually known for s ternatnal genre releas, offers a movie of a different kd wh the gay-themed Chilean men--prison drama The Prce (El Prcipe).

GREAT FREEDOM REVIEW – POWERFUL GAY​​ PRISON DRAMA​ ​SET POSTWAR GERMANY

And Franz Rogowski’s remarkable, ntaed performance as Hans Hoffman, a gay man who spends much of his life prison, persecuted for his sexualy acrdance wh paragraph 175 of the German penal ceas to have the same meang behd bars, but thanks to a strikg physil transformatn, Rogowski guis through a nonlear storyle spanng 1945 – Hans is released om a ncentratn mp only to be imprisoned immediately for the crime of his homosexualy – to 1969 and the repeal of paragraph 175.

The film has some toxitg elements of homoerotic fantasy s pictn of prison life but the btaly and vlence that s protagonists endure is never unrplayed. El Prcipe aka The Prce, the directg but of filmmaker Sebastián Muñoz is one of most homoerotic prison movi we have seen for some time, and bears the fluenc of other queer movi of that genre. At this stage Jaime is anythg but, and meekly follows him to the group showers and then allows Stud to perate whout jail is a grim sordid place and the warrs seem to turn a bld eye to all the homosexualy gog on ……….