One of the commonly accepted standouts of the festival, as Variety magazine summed it up Greenaway has wrought an outrageously unconventional and deliriously profane biopic that could take decades to be duly appreciated.’ I wholeheartedly agree. The film explores in a chopped up, out of sync and deliciously surreal way the twin topics of sex and death in the warm climate of Guanajuato in Mexico. Told through the perspective of the overtly analytical and …
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Coming out of this film, I felt a little cheated. Perhaps I expected too much from it. It was the last film of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival that I saw and although it had many nicely framed shots and sumptuous costumes, the acting seems very stilted, ill managed and bordering in several places on melodrama. I suppose it also didn’t help that I know the story of Queen Christina fairly intimately, having studied her …
Telling the story of Theremin maestro Armen Ra who uses his creativity as a life saving path to greater achievement. Hailing from the Armenian Christian minority of Iran, he fled during the Revolution of 1979 to resettle in America with his family. In this documentary, he introduces himself and his name by retelling how he earns his name during his early teens when a tarot reader rushes out of a crowd in an overheated hotel …