Gay beach movie

Before the screening

I’m going to try to write this one quick. This review of Beira-Mar has been sitting in my drafts folder for a week already, but I just couldn’t find the words to put down onto paper, but I’ll give it a try now.

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Last Saturday, after watching 45 Years (a motion picture that brought two awards to the two steer actors), my friends and I made our way to the showing of Beira-Mar. Like so many of the Berlinale films I went to this year, Beira-Mar wasn’t on my original list of must-sees—but I’m glad I was roped into seeing it.

Film screenshot – don’t you just love the actor’s blue hair?!

The clip tells the story of two teenage boys on a short journey of self-discovery. They each own their own issues and while on a concise trip together to the Brazilian seaside (one of my favorite places to think, if you remember…), they must resolve them. Each boy needed to come to terms with his own problem.

From here on out, I may write some spoilers, so, uh, yeah—watch out. I’m sorry, but this show just makes me hope for to talk.

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Stranger by the Lake

Original title: L'inconnu du lac

Summertime. A cruising spot for men, tucked away on the shores of a lake. Franck falls in like with Michel, an attractive, potent and lethally hazardous man. Franck knows this but wants to l... Read allSummertime. A cruising spot for men, tucked away on the shores of a lake. Franck falls in love with Michel, an attractive, potent and lethally dangerous guy. Franck knows this but wants to live out his passion anyway.Summertime. A cruising spot for men, tucked away on the shores of a lake. Franck falls in cherish with Michel, an attractive, potent and lethally risky man. Franck knows this but wants to dwell out his passion anyway.

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Not for the faint of heart, but ultimately rewarding for demanding moviegoers

There are some thriller tropes here and there, a tiny bit of suspense, but at its core, it's mostly a chronicle, we follow, for a rare day, a handful of men cruising by a lac. Some will be taken aback by the highly graphical nature of the movie, but I deeply believe that the point here isn't shock value, but simply the desire to shoot th

The Sixties beach film craze began with Gidget (1959) starring Sandra Dee and James Darren, a fictionalized look at teenager Kathy Kohner’s surfing escapades in Malibu during the mid-fifties. It was groundbreaking as the movie contributed to the mass influx of surfers to the beaches of Malibu and started a series of surf-themed films such as Gidget Goes Hawaiian with Deborah Walley stepping into Dee’s surfer role and Ride the Wild Surf with Fabian, Shelley Fabares, and Tab Hunter.

The surf movie soon morphed into the beach-party film, whose heyday was from 1963 through 1965, where surfing was only used as a backdrop to fanciful teenage beach adventures. Beach Party from AIP starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello launched the duo in Muscle Beach Party, Bikini Beach, Beach Blanket Bingo, and How to Stuff a Wild Bikini. Soon other studios were releasing their own Beach Party rivals such as Surf Party with Bobby Vinton and Pat Morrow, For Those Who Reflect Young with James Darren and Pamela Tiffin, and Beach Ball with Edd Byrnes and Chris Noel. Some films varied from the formula by shifting the locale to a lake A Swingin’ Summer, a haunte

Beach Rats

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The picture of boys that never get to self acceptance

A picture of a sadness life of a boy that has gay tendencies while is surrounded by a toxic masculinity context. It just made realize how many guys must had experienced horrible relations with other mans because they don't accept themselves. The show don't pretend to contain a happy ending and it was a nice way to represent the internal conflict of self acceptance that for a lot of mens ends never happening. May be a good example of what not to undertake for some boys out there.

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Could've been better

Harris Dickinson gives an amazing act as the sexually perplexed aimless teenager who also faces family tragedy and drug problems. The whole film works well telling the story from his perspective. But the production lacks the ambition to expand the themes touched by it. It should've been daring in displaying the problems faced by the protagonist and the results of his efforts. While what's been shown catches the state of mind of the protagonist perfectly, it feels fond of the film ends without telling everything it could and should have.

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