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On The Sea (UK)

By Golu
This one's a beautiful, tender, quiet romantic drama with a moody atmosphere, set in a tight knit Welsh fishing community. It's a touching story about a man waking up sexually in the middle of his life, and how he, his family, and everyone around him deal with it, which makes it emotional and sentimental without ever getting over the top. The slow burn plays out against a landscape that's as bleak as it is gorgeous, where quiet, closed off men are stuck inside rigid ideas of what masculinity should be. Some people might be reminded of "God's Own Country," but I think both films are lovely in their own way. Jack is a middle aged guy who co-owns a mussel farm with his rough around the edges brother Dyfan, and the tension between the two of them is simmering under the surface right from the start. Dyfan's three sons all help out with the work, while Jack's sulky teenage son Tom keeps skipping out. Jack's been with his wife since they were both 16, and...
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La fête des pères (French) [Father's Day]

By Golu

Yeah, it's pretty clear this kind of gay comedy could only have come out of the 90s, back when creators had way more freedom to just do whatever they wanted on screen.

Thomas and Stéphane are a wealthy, happy gay couple living in France. All they really want at this point is to raise a kid together. Through this whole comedic chain of events, they head to Martinique to buy a black baby, and end up getting scammed out of five thousand francs in the process. Eventually they manage to track the guy down and get their money back. Along the way they run into Carole, a friendly and attractive woman who actually helps them recover the cash. They talk her into becoming their surrogate, but she insists it has to happen through natural conception only. The rest of the movie basically follows them trying to make that work, and eventually they go along with it, sleeping with her, and end up becoming dads to twins.

The copy I watched had some genuinely terrible subtitles, sometimes they weren't even there at all, so honestly there were chunks of the film I just couldn't follow. Like, how exactly did Carole talk the couple into doing it the natural way? Even after a few attempts it apparently didn't work out. Setting that confusion aside for a second, I think the whole point of this movie, considering it came out back in 1990, was purely to entertain. I didn't notice anything in here that felt like it was mocking the gay community or making them the butt of the joke. Sometimes a movie just wants to be fun, and that's honestly what this felt like it was going for. The cast had great chemistry together. The mom character was funny too. I really wish I could've understood more of what was happening. Production quality was decent, though it gave off more of a made for TV kind of feel. At this point I think it's probably too late for anyone to bother putting out a proper DVD release with working subtitles. Still, overall I'd say it was perfectly fine.

Bottom line, dated but harmless fun, held back mostly by bad subtitles. (5/10)

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