MQFF: Papi Chulo
Immigration and a gay slur are some of a few English words known by Spanish speaking labourer Ernesto (Alejandro Patiño), who comes into a position of employment for Los Angeles weatherman Sean (Matt Bomer) in the 2018 c...
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Yo, Carmen
Flamenco offering Yo, Carmen (in English: I, Carmen) purports to draw on the story of the opera Carmen by Bizet, and some of the popular music which developed into its score. Accompanied by musicians and singers, dancers...
Girls of the Sun
Conflict transcends both plot and narrative in 2018’s French-War film Girls of the Sun (Les filles du soleil) with righteous themes told in such an accost manner that it detracts from the subjects experience in order to ...
33 Variations
33 Variations is many things, perhaps not unsurprisingly considering the title. Moisés Kaufman’s script explores pain, mortality, love, sacrifice, and how the search for truth – academic or artistic – can eas...
Knife+Heart
Films involving the production of porn have varied in taste in the twenty two years since the release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s drama-comedy, Boogie Nights. Where focus has been on exploring the history of abuse ex...
Adelaide Fringe: Kathy Lette’s Big Night Out
Why is it that the Cyndi Lauper song Girls Just Wanna Have Fun is so infectious? You’ve heard it a million times but it still resonates girls and fun. So, it’s fitting that Kathy Lette comes on stage dancing to that song...
Celebration: Yves Saint Laurent
Comparing the fruit of their labours to the efforts of the Ancient Egyptians, there is a grandiose belief held by those working for acclaimed fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent that their contribution to fashion were to...
Salome
It may be 114 years old but the Richard Strauss opera, Salome, has lost none of its ability to shock and unsettle, particularly as presented here in Gale Edwards extraordinarily visceral production. Brian Thomson’s setti...
