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Mi querida señorita (Spanish) [My Dearest Señorita]

By Golu
This film is a genuinely moving story about courage, identity and inner freedom, centered on an intersex person trying to figure out who they really are. The fact that an actual intersex actor was cast in the lead role is genuinely worth applauding. It is apparently a remake of a classic film of same name that came out in 1972. Since I have not seen the film, I really have references to compare, which is good.  Set in Spain, we meet Adela, a woman in her twenties and the only child of a conservative couple living in a small provincial town. Her days are mostly spent at the family antique shop, and her whole life has been shaped by her mother's overprotectiveness and total silence around her intersex condition, something she's faced real social discrimination for. Despite all the restrictions placed on her, she finds odd little pockets of normalcy in her life, and her closest connection is a gay priest, basically the only person she feels she can talk to freely. That quiet routi...
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Days Of August

By Golu

I honestly think the people who made this movie had big dreams that their budget just couldn't keep up with. It’s got a cool sci-fi concept at its core, but the way they actually put it together leaves a lot to be desired. The biggest headache for me was how they handled the flashbacks—they kept jumping around without making it clear where we were in the timeline, which left me feeling pretty lost. While the gay romance is a huge part of the story, the movie actually spends way more time on the fight between the mean government and the rebels. It really tries to lean into that contrast between a cold, scary dictatorship and the warm, secret bond between two guys from totally different walks of life.

The whole thing takes place in a version of America run by a brutal police state, with the city of Harpswell serving as the home for a growing rebellion. We follow Godfrey, whose dad, Thomas, is actually the tyrant running the whole show. Even though Godfrey was born into a rich, powerful family, he’s secretly writing for an underground rebel paper to take down his own father's system. The story picks up years after his boyfriend, August Dupree—a guy from the poor, struggling class—was killed. Godfrey finds August’s old book of poems, and as he reads them, we get those flashbacks showing their secret romance. August was part of the group the government was trying to crush, and while they were having this hidden affair, August was also deep in the resistance. In fact, he didn't get killed for being gay; it was because of the fact that he is from rebel class (even though he himself was never part of any antisocial activity). Reading the journal forces Godfrey to face a ton of regret about his past and the choices he made while the city was on the verge of a revolution.

To be totally blunt, this movie has a massive "indie" feel—at times, it almost looked like a high school project. If it actually was a student film, I might be a bit nicer, but I’m just looking at it as a regular viewer. While the romance was sweet, it felt kind of tossed in there. It wasn't like their families were upset about them being gay; it was the massive gap between the rich and the poor that kept them apart. There’s a scene near the end where August finally introduces Godfrey to his mom so they can have a little bit of peace together, but it felt like too little, too late. The actors themselves were fine, but the movie throws way too many side characters at you before you even get to the main couple, so I never knew who I was supposed to care about.

Between the confusing timeline and the clunky execution, I really didn't have a good time watching this one at all. (2.5/10)

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