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7 French Gay Films You Have To See At Least Once!

French films hold always been out there. From classic black and white movies to the New Wave movement in the mid-20th-century, movies from France have always pushed boundaries and set modern standards. Even today, the French remain so imaginative that many of their films create such an impact, particularly, their queer movies. From same sex to non-binary couples, French filmmakers have told compelling cinematic stories that tug at everyone's heartstrings, whether you're part of the LGBTQ+ community or not. Who could ever fail to remember movies like 'Blue is the Warmest Color,' 'Call Me By Your Name,' and many more?

Un Chant d’Amour (1950)

If the 1950 film, 'Un Chant d’Amour,' wasn't banned nor suffered so many cut scenes, it'd probably be up there among the sexiest French filmsof all moment. French writer Jean Genet wrote and directed this 26-minute movie set in a men's prison, where inmates grapple with their sexual desires and ardent emotions. Do note that this was released in 1950, a time when France was just recuperating after World War II. Audiences weren't so evolving then so it was only natural that a lot of cinemas throu

10 great French lgbtq+ films

Traditionally France has been seen as one of the most liberal countries in the earth, and it boasts an enviable register on gay rights, despite the occasional rantings from Brigitte Bardot. But has this homofriendly attitude translated to its cinema?

We’ve kept the list to films that are easily accessible to watch in the UK, but honourable mention should go to The Ostrich Has Two Eggs (1957), a dated farce that at least has a understanding gay son, albeit one who never appears on screen, and Les Amitiés particulières (1964), set in a boys’ boarding school. Les Nuits fauves (1992) is one of the finest films to deal with the AIDS crisis, while the best function of the recently deceased Patrice Chéreau (especially 1983’s L’Homme blessé) narrowly missed the cut.

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Where are the lesbians? Excellent question, as French cinema is particularly strong on sapphic cinema. Alas, pioneering films such as Club de femmes (1936) and Olivia (1950) aren’t easily on hand in the UK, b

Paris Gay Pride 1982

A selection of four films from the years of gay liberation from the 1970s and 1980s in France.

02.14.2017

Introduction

How liberating was gay liberation in France? A selection of four films from the years of gay liberation from the 1970s and 1980s can show us how gay men were becoming more visible, changing attitudes and speaking for themselves in this period. But these films can also show us how stereotypes persisted, and how gay liberation brought its own problems and contradictions.

Homosexuality in France until 1978

Homosexuality has been legal in France since the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century. Despite this history of tolerance, during the Second Earth War, the right-wing Vichy regime introduced new legislation repressing ‘unnatural’ acts for those under 21. Then, in 1960, the French parliament further hardened attitudes by passing an amendment that classified homosexuality among alcoholism, drug addiction, prostitution and tuberculosis as a ‘social plague’.

The period after the events of May 1968 and before the HIV-AIDS crisis in the early 1980s was one of great hope. Inspired by student uprisings in 19

FéLIX KYSYL, JACQUES DEVELAY IN MISERIICORDIA

Guiraudie's leading film since 'Stranger by the Lake'

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This is a tale of murder, but not a traditional one. It is infused with a new variation of the spicy gay sensibility that Giraudie most effectively utilized in his most celebrated previous film.

After he returns to Saint-Martial for his former boss's funeral and stays with widow Martine, Jérémie becomes entangled with a disappearance, a threatening neighbor, and an abbot's shady intentions.

"Misericordia" means forgiveness, and the tangled plotline and ironic picture of French village life is fraught with God's unexpectedly and cunningly forgiving ways. This is also a picture of how a traditiional rural group can fold in upon itself to protect its retain, and those it wants to accept.

But can we approve this? Mores and manners may differ, as we've seen with Guiraudie (though this is still only my fourth, and he has made before, such as in his 2009 film The King of Escape. Misericordiais closer to the messiness of that than to the tight construction of the director's biggest success, the sexy, neatly shaped 2013 thriller, Stranger by the Lake,which wo