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Author: Paul Salt

Posted onMarch 25, 2021April 22, 2021

BFI Flare 2021 ‘Sublet’ Review: Mellow Tale of Intergenerational Romance

Michael (John Benjamin Hickey) is a travel writer journeying to Tel Aviv for an article. He sublets a small apartment with amateur filmmaker Tomer (Niv...

Posted onMarch 24, 2021April 22, 2021

BFI Flare 2021 ‘Cured’ Review: Fascinating and Terrifying History of Prejudice in Psychiatry

Cured details the history of American Psychiactric attitudes to homosexual people. From decrying any non-heterosexual sexuality as a mental illness to the gradual acceptance of...

Posted onMarch 23, 2021April 22, 2021

‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ Review: Shades of the East

Centuries after the last dragons gave their lives to banish the world of a dark, soul-absorbing force known as the Druun, the guardianship of an...

Posted onMarch 23, 2021April 22, 2021

BFI Flare 2021 ‘Well Rounded’ Review: An Urgent Plea for Understanding

When a person wants to express their dislike of seeing fat people, they will tend to say that they should lose weight for their own...

Posted onMarch 23, 2021April 22, 2021

BFI Flare 2021 ‘Kiss Me Before it Blows Up’ Review: Playing it Safe in Risky Territory

Israeli Jewish woman Shira Shalev (Moran Rosenblatt) is in love with her German girlfriend Maria (Luise Wolfram). Shira’s family are supportive of her love life,...

Posted onMarch 23, 2021April 22, 2021

BFI Flare ‘P.S. Burn This Letter Please’ Review: Elegiac Monument to a Fabulous Past

Directors Michael Seligman and Jennifer Tiexiera’s documentary reveals a wealth of letters written by members of the drag and female impersonator scene of the 1950s....

Posted onMarch 23, 2021April 22, 2021

BFI Flare ‘Cowboys’ Review: A Moving Road Movie that Strays from the Path

Joe (Sasha Knight) is a trans boy who’s mother can’t accept her true gender identity. His unstable but supportive father (Steve Zahn) takes him into...

Posted onMarch 23, 2021April 22, 2021

BFI Flare ‘No Ordinary Man’ Review: Discovering the Man Behind the Noise

The story and legacy of Billy Tipton, the jazz musician and closeted trans man. After his death he became the subject of a media frenzy...

Posted onMarch 23, 2021April 22, 2021

BFI Flare 2021 ‘Poppy Field’ Review: Brothers in Arms

Cristi (Conrad Mericoffer) is a gay man and a police officer in Romania. After a tense visit from his lover and sister, he finds his...

Posted onMarch 23, 2021

BFI Flare ‘Tove’ Review: Intimate Portrait of the Woman Behind Moominvalley

Zaida Bergroth presents the life of Moomin creator Tove Jansson (Alma Pöysti). Living as a closeted gay woman in Helskinki at the end of the...

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