A Revry original, Unconventional is a really well-liked queer dramedy that feels totally different from the usual stuff. The heart of the story is about two pretty eccentric queer siblings and their partners trying to build a family that doesn't follow the traditional rules. It takes a super raw and unfiltered look at queer life, diving deep into things like mental health, addiction, and how complicated identity and relationships can get. It’s not afraid to get messy or show people at their most vulnerable, and it really pushes boundaries while showing a lot of different queer experiences. The first season has nine episodes, and each one is about a half-hour long. The story centers on Noah, a grad student who’s been struggling for years to wrap up his PhD. He’s been with his husband, Dan, for nine years, and they’ve recently gotten married and moved to Palm Springs. While they're trying to figure out how to start a family and have a baby, they decide to shake things up by in...
Yaji and Kita are two samurai men living in Edo period Japan who are in love. One is married, the other is a drug addict. Yaji wants Kita to kick off his drug addiction. They decide that in order to make things better they will go on a trip to Ise Sanctuary, where its presumed, everything will be made right. What happens once they get on the road is the movie and its as wild and wacky as anything your likely to see. On their way they meet various gender bending characters laced with gay jokes, romance, spoofs of films and music (and musical numbers), trips through time and space etc etc.
The film actually started off well and pretty soon you realize that what you are going to see is nothing ordinary, but once I was about 25 minutes into the film, I started losing interest. The characters are very bright, very colorful and very vivid, and the humor is extremely off the wall, imaginative and playful. It was obvious that the film was going to be not about a story or a message, but about how a crazy film maker wants to use his creative liberty to the next level to showcase things that would have not been thought of to be shown in one single film. Frankly its hard to describe what happens when the road trip actually starts, since much of it is so out there that to hear about it out of context will not make any sense. It is definitely surreal, touching, bizarre, obscure, confusing, culture-bound - but also laugh-out-loud funny in parts, but it is so full of itself. This film is so crazy that there is a good chance it will never even find the cult status which is what it probably was aiming for when it was made. A very bizarre film that started off well, but soon it exceeded the time it was welcomed for. (3/10)
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