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Naked As We Came has picked up several gongs on the film festival circuits, including Audience Award – Best feature at the Long Island LGTB Film Festival, Audience Favorite at the Cinema Diverse Film Festival,  Festival Favorite as QFest Philadelphia and Best Drama at Out In The Desert Film Festival. Now you can take a look at the trailer above.

After an unexpected phone call, Laura and her brother Elliot rush to their family’s country estate to find their mother, Lilly, gravely ill and living with a handsome young stranger named Ted. Estranged for some time, their mother’s condition sets Laura and Elliot on a path to realizing where their own lives have gone wrong. Lilly, on the other hand, has mellowed from the controlling woman she was and is hoping to pass on some wisdom to her children. Now her kids find themselves dealing with their own feelings of resentment and broken dreams while trying to figure out how Ted fits into their mother’s life. But Ted has a secret of his own.

Find out more at the film’s website. [Read more...]

One of the films that’s been stirring up a fair amount of interest at Cannes is L’Inconnu du lac (Stranger by the Lake). Screening in the ‘Un Certain Regard’ segment of the festival, Alain Guiraudie’s film is a mix of very explicit sex, nihilistic thriller and arthouse drama. Reports suggest it got an extremely positive reaction at screenings, even though many have admitted its hardcore scenes will make it difficult to distribute.

The short synopsis from the Cannes website simply says, ‘Summertime. A cruising spot for men, tucked away on the shores of a lake. Franck falls in love with Michel. An attractive, potent and lethally dangerous man. Franck knows this, but wants to live out his passion anyway.’ That hints at the plot, which involves Franck witnessing Michel killing someone but telling nobody. He continues to pursue Michel, who holds him at arms length.

Take a look at a teaser for the film above (which you won’t be surprised to hear doesn’t feature any hardcore sexy, although it is a bit sexy). Hopefully its Cannes success will ensure this ‘porn noir’ gets better distribution than it might otherwise have had. [Read more...]

Love Or Whatever is busy doing the film festival rounds at the moment, and will be released on DVD by TLA in the US later this year. But you can take a look at the teaser for the movie above.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Corey is a good-hearted therapist who loves helping his sweet, eccentric clients find happiness. After two years in a relationship with carefree jock Jon, Corey decides it’s time to pop the question. Obsessed with planning the “perfect moment”, though, Corey lets chance after chance slip by, until his feisty sister Kelsey gives him an ultimatum: ask him tonight or I’ll do it for you! Corey agrees to take the leap. But when the proposal night arrives, Jon prematurely discovers the rings. Suddenly face-to-face with a big commitment, Jon is overwhelmed by fear and doubt, and rushes out to the bar to drown his worries with friends.

‘There he meets Melissa, an attractive, recently-divorced older woman looking to make a new start of her own. Drawn together by electric attraction and mutual need, they share a night of passion that leads to something more. When Jon confesses his infidelity to Corey, their split sends Corey into a tailspin. And Corey’s in for a bigger shock when he discovers that Jon’s new girlfriend Melissa is one of Corey’s biggest clients! Corey struggles to come to terms with the breakup and understand Jon’s actions, and though he knows better, Corey just can’t resist getting the dirt on his ex’s new relationship through his counseling sessions with Melissa.

‘Finally, guided (and gently pushed) by Kelsey, Corey puts himself back out there, navigating the wild world of web dating with hilariously disastrous results. But when Corey discovers the mobile social networking app Grindr, he finds the potential man of his dreams has been there all along—Pete, a poet, scholar, neighborhood pizza guy, and all around hunk. Corey had no idea Pete was gay, and better yet, single! Their friendship sparks a ‘bromance’ that soon blossoms into a romance. As their relationship grows, Corey struggles with his unresolved feelings for Jon—who, despite his relationship with Melissa, never seems too far from Corey’s door.

‘As Pete struggles with a family illness and Kelsey fights to save her beloved neighborhood coffee bar, Corey neglects them and starts to yearn for what he’s lost. Unexpectedly alone and vulnerable on the night of his 30th birthday, Corey finds bad-boy Jon at his doorstep looking for a second chance, and their unfinished business takes a passionate turn. But moments later, the different pieces of Corey’s life collide with explosive results, as Pete, Melissa and Kelsey discover the truth about Corey and Jon—and Corey must face the truth about himself. Alone for the first time in his life, with his boyfriend gone, his sister’s livelihood in peril and his career hanging by a thread, Corey has to make a choice: to rekindle the past with Jon or to start over and fight for Kelsey, his career, and a last chance at love with Pete. Can Corey face the fear, overcome his obsession with planning and perfection and embrace the crazy, scary, unpredictable, adventurous future as it comes? In Love Or Whatever, it all comes down to a wild finish—and a choice that will change Corey’s life forever.’ [Read more...]