![]() ![]() It’s one of the reasons I am so excited to finally hit up the BFI’s LGBTQ+ film festival Flare next week: movies where their purpose, and our desire, is to see queer life writ large on the screen.ġ20 BPM will be among the big hitters at Flare, alongside some movies you’ve probably heard of: God’s Own Country, for example, a film about a Yorkshire farmer and a Romanian immigrant forming a relationship during the lambing season. When you see a moment on film of people living your experience, sharing your shorthand, the hunger for more is all-consuming: you don’t realise how exhausting it is to translate stories into your own experience until you see someone do the heavy lifting for you. I don’t know if I’ve ever even seen a condom put on before. ![]() I have, honestly, never seen such a universal experience so accurately captured in a non-pornographic movie. In 120 BPM, a French movie about a gay couple who meet as members of Paris’ ACT UP movement, I saw something I thought I might never see in a movie: two men using lube before they had anal sex.
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