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Waterberry Tears (English/Spanish)

By Golu
This is your typical indie coming-of-age tale about a teenager, though it’s clearly working with a very tiny budget. Set within a migrant family living in Southern California’s Coachella Valley, the movie digs into how fragile old-school traditions and expectations can be. We follow a teenage son as he goes through the process of coming out and struggles to find acceptance while dealing with homophobia, domestic abuse, and a messy love triangle that involves his own sister. Goyo is seventeen and just about to graduate from high school. Since he’s been a bit more feminine since he was a little kid, he’s always had to deal with emotional and physical transition from his dad, Ramon, who is obsessed with him being "a man." The only real love he gets is from a lady next door who actually respects him for who he is. The family lives in a Mexican community where everyone works on a grape farm, but things get shaken up when a new guy named Lucio arrives. Lucio basically seduces Goyo ...
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Bad Boy Street (French/English)

By Golu
An interesting truly bi-lingual film made by an American director, this film does manage to keep you absorbed till the end. It might not excite you too much but at the same time, it does succeed in keeping you absorbed throughout, just to see what is going to happen next.

Claude is a 40 something French guy. One night returning form clubs, he finds a guy passed out completely and brings him home and washes his clothes and just is nice to him. This guy Brad, wakes up in the morning and finds the gesture very nice and returns favor by a morning job. Brad realizes that Claude doesn't know who he is and he can be himself. We later find out that he is a famous American actor and that Claude hates American films. An unlikely bond establishes between the two and they hang out to get to know each other and possibly find love. Claude's best friend Catherine is very happy with this development. She wants best for Claude. All this while Brad has been successful to keep his identity secret. But when a surprise birthday party is hosted by Catherine for Claude, his friends recognize who Brad is and Brad runs away. He messages Claude about his reality and how only with Claude, he was able to be himself. He loved him but unfortunately he cannot see him again. 6 months later he returns to Paris for promotion of his film and meets Claude again. Their awkwardness is very apparent because Claude has tried his best to move on by now. Clearing all unpleasantness, they sleep together and be with each other. Brad has to leave the next day to go back to US. Will he, won't he?

This film was a serious gay romance, but how I wish the production values were a little more accomplished. I think Claude's choice of actor was apt but Brad just did not fit his role of a famous Hollywood movie star trying to hide his identity. His acting also could have been better. The film’s production just feels a little too rushed and some editing choices make the film feel like a student production, which feels little too rough to be a stylistic choice. I really enjoyed the bi-language nature of the film. The mix of British and French is an interesting and greatly appreciated mix. However, looking passed the technical issues, it is not a bad movie at all.

Bad Boy Street is time pass and you wont be bored for sure. (5/10)
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Miisu said…
I had this film on my list for over a year, but for some unknown reason kept postponing it. And I'm glad I decided to watch it today when I was looking through my old travel photos and found this street, the Rue de Mauvais-Garcons on the map of Paris. Chrissake, I've been on that street! That got me hooked. Despite the chaotic moments in acting the story itself was nicely compact. It's always fascinating to observe your own thoughts while travelling - how seeing a detail of a building, a fountain behind a hedge - or a street sign - gets your imagination work overtime and create such elaborate stories as the script of this film. What has happened on this street, why is it called a Bad Boys' Street? And what would happen here, if this or that situation occurred? For example if a movie star passes out here and is rescued by a local and... I'm extra grateful for the writer for having two men as protagonists in this story. I tried to picture the same situation with a straight couple and tbh it was weird, off and downright fake.

And the open-promising ending was done perfectly, it definitely adds rewatchability and keeps the story continuing in the viewer's mind, probably creating a (slightly) different ending every time.
September 6, 2022 at 2:00 PM
Golu said…
Thank you for your views and comments. To be honest. I don't remember much of what was there in the film :)
But I agree that its always fascinating to observe thoughts with traveling.
September 6, 2022 at 2:08 PM
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