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Guttman died from an AIDs-related illness the year after the film was released. Yossi is a follow-up to Yossi & Jagger (2002), a romantic drama about the love between two Israeli soldiers. Amazing Grace is a heartbreaking legacy of the potential future classics that he might have gone on to make.
Man Is a Woman (1998)
Director: Jean-Jacques Zilbermann
In the UK, Antoine de Caunes is best known as the wry presenter of Eurotrash (1993-), ever at risk of being upstaged by Jean-Paul Gaultier and cardboard giraffes Pipi and Popo.
Few gay and lesbian survivors were alive to tell their stories when Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman made their important documentary Paragraph 175, whose title derives from the German act of law prohibiting gay sex, which continued to exist into the 1990s. It was initially released in June 2015 at the Sheffield Documentary Festival, and was directed by Jake Witzenfeld as his feature debut.
While there are plenty of parties and lectures to attend — and let’s not forget our dear Club Quarantine — what better way to celebrate this glorious month than watching an LGBTQ+ flick? The fantasy sequence where male models in a porn magazine come to life is worthy of Derek Jarman, while the sad camera pan around the room following the gaze of the dying grandmother of one of the men is filled with poignancy and regret.
A moment when a grimly orthodox wife, towards the end of the film, finally opens her mouth and defends Saar had the audience cheering at the screening I attended. He, like many of his fellow Boys in the Band cast members, later died from an AIDS-related illness.
Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
Director: Paul Bogart
Harvey Fierstein is best known for his stage work, particularly for writing the books for the stage musicals La Cage aux Folles and Kinky Boots, joining Stephen Sondheim and Jerry Herman as Broadway legends who happened to be both gay and Jewish.
(It's a mitzvah, ya know.)
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10 great Jewish LGBTQIA+ films
With a day to go until the launch of this year’s BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, the best of queer cinema is about to take over BFI Southbank for a 31st glorious year. The documentary Paper Dolls (in Hebrew Boobot Niyar) was released in 2006 by director Tomer Heymann.
Is Simon really in love with his brother-in-law, too, or is it mere lust? ‘Aimée’ and ‘Jaguar’ are the pet names they use for each other.
The film’s greatest triumph is to humanise these two emblems of love under repression – Felice is sometimes selfish and unfaithful, Lilly can be silly and insensitive to the greater danger her lover and her queer friends face.
The film is not only a modern tale of the trials and tribulations of being gay in society, it also documents the difficulties of being gay for Palestinian men and how the issue clashes with Islamic doctrine. When he encounters Jagger’s mother at the hospital where he works, he drives her home, seeking redemption.
The premise combined with Streisand’s iconic songs makes for a memorable watch.
Sublet (2020)
This Israeli film tells the story of a New York Times writer who travels to Tel Aviv and meets a young film student.
A sequel, He Is My Girl (2009), followed, also directed by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann.
Aimée & Jaguar (1999)
Director: Max Färberböck
Maria Schrader and Juliane Köhler shared the best actress award at the Berlin Film Festival for their performances as two real-life women who embarked on a dangerous love affair in Nazi Germany.
In Man Is a Woman, he brings all his considerable charm and charisma to the role of Simon, a gay Klezmer musician who is offered 10 million francs from his traditionalist uncle if he agrees to marry a woman. Is the meaning of the film’s title, explained at the vibrant Jewish wedding that starts the film, a homophobic nonsense?
Happy June, and happy Pride!
De Caunes, a gifted farceur, plays with the clichés of the philandering French man and makes Simon a winning, if errant, antihero, and the script is very funny.