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...
Oh please!! Spare me these arthouse Indi queer films BS. The film is all about atmosphere where you watch it just so that you can call yourself a "connoisseur" of art house cinema. In reality this film completely fails to hold any attention. At the center of it all is a gay couple, but it could have been a straight couple as well and nothing would have changed.
Middle aged gay couple Patrick and Rene, live in an empty seaside dance hall on the coast of France. One of them, Patrick the writer , was raised there and he’s come back to live and work in the old building. He’s turned the vacant ballroom over to his boyfriend René the artist as a studio/performance space where René gets busy working up a show for the gallery owner Maurice. Rene also runs a porn website with pictures of his toy bears doing pretty much nothing. When René comes across a 60 year old photo of a couple of music hall comedians, he starts seeing the two comics everywhere he looks and one of them seems to be himself. He then is introduced to the idea of parallel universes and starts to wonder if he might really be one of the comics in another universe. When Patrick leaves for the day, and René is knocking around alone in the empty building, strange things start to happen... things that seem to originate down in the dark dirty space below the dance floor.
There really isn't much of a story here. We seem to just go along for the ride as René spirals out of control. The effect even spreads to Maurice, who has come to check up on René’s progress on the upcoming show and there the film abruptly ends. There isa. Nice sex scene between the gay couple in the beginning but again that adds literally nothing to the story. It was just a bad bad film and nothing about this is interesting. (0/10)

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