November 14th Archives - Big Gay Picture Show

Starring: Robert Stadloer, Kostja Ullman, Jurgen Tonkel, Miriam Morgenstern
Director: Marco Kreuzpainter
Running Time: 94 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: November 14th, 2005

Summer Storm (or to give it its proper German title, Sommersturm) is a Teutonic addition to the ever-expanding gay movie subgenre of coming out flicks. It’s little surprise it’s such a popular subject, as coming out in one way or another is one of the few things nearly always gay people share and which becomes a pivotal moment in their lives.

Teenagers Tobi and Achim are best friends who are heading off for a summer camp with their rowing team, ahead of a big competition. The boys are extremely close, even going as far as to wank off together, and believe nothing could ever come between them. [Read more…]

Starring: Lou Doillon, Marie Kremer, Eduardo Noriega, Marisa Berencon, Marisa Paredes
Director: Laure Charpentier
Running Time: 100 mins
Certificate: 18
Release Date: November 14th, 2011

Director Laure Charpentier adapts one of her own controversial books for the screen, with this tale of gangsters, prostitutes and Sapphic desire in 1960s Paris. After her lover commits suicide, Gigola butches up, starts being emotionally aloof and becomes part of an underworld of prostitutes, gangsters and pimps.

Gigola seems to have a power to draw people in, whether it’s a hooker (Marie Kremer) who becomes Gigola new project, an older woman (Marisa Paredes) who falls for her, or a gangster(Eduardo Noriega), who may be the only person who can break through her hard veneer. All this while dealing with her needy mother and opium fiend father, and trying to save her childhood home. [Read more…]