Starring Tom Cullen, Chris New, Laura Freeman
Queer cinema still hasn't taken off one thinks. Maybe it doesn't want to. Maybe it wants to be segregated and have its niche market. Maybe Brokeback Mountain did bad things for gay film.
Weekend is director Andrew Haigh's first fictional film. Set in Nottingham, Russell heads out one Friday night and manages to pull. His new friend Glen becomes interested in what gay life still looks like to a gay man himself. So through the weekend they experience drugs, sex and general talk of how the world is wrong for a gay man.
The film is beautiful. Where real love only lasts a weekend and homophobia isn't the issue. There are funny moments but I felt only because the audience still aren't sure how to react. Even a gay one.
But it's a step in the right direction for gay cinema.
4/5
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