Peccadillo Pictures Stocking Fillers

Peccadillo Pictures have some of 2016’s most critically acclaimed and innovative queer films available on DVD or On Demand out now. Perfect presents for the discerning cinema fan in your life!

 


Theo and Hugo

Directed by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, Theo and Hugo follows the titular characters in real time, from their meeting in sex club L’Impact, to their subsequent wanderings through early-hours Paris. Subtitled in English, the film is a slow-burner that deals with modern gay issues in a subtle fashion. The two leads, Geoffrey Couët and François Nambot,, have a mesmerising onscreen chemistry and it captures beautifully that serene stillness found in the early hours in cities. It won the Audience Award at the Berlin International Film Festival’s Teddy Awards, as well as gaining a large number of positive reviews.

Theo and Hugo

 


Beautiful Something

Beautiful Something tells the story of four men who pound the streets of Philadelphia, searching for quick and easy sex, and inadvertently finding more than they set out for. Brian is a tortured poet infatuated with a straight man, Drew and James are in an unsure coupling that veers perilously back and forth between artist and muse, to lovers, to fraught enemies. Then, there’s Bob, an older talent agent who drives the street in his limousine searching for trade. Their paths cross and they are forced to confront their innermost weaknesses. Joseph Graham, also behind Strapped and Vanilla, directs and gives it an old school, cruisey feel.

Beautiful Something

 


Girls Lost

Part Freaky Friday, part Let The Right One In, Girls Lost is a body-swapping, gender-twisting Swedish drama that explores stale gender roles in a slightly surreal way. Three teenage girls Kim, Momo and Bella, are misfits and find themselves ostracised at school. One night, they drink the nectar that drips from a mysterious plant and find themselves transformed into boys. Initially this transformation is a welcome liberation from the strain of everyday life, but the novelty soon wears off for them; all apart from Kim, who falls in love with bad boy Tony. It captures a sense of non-belonging and longing for different circumstances that many queer people will find painfully accurate.

Lost Girls

 


Closet Monster

Following the growing pains of a young gay man, Closet Monster isn’t just another coming-of-age drama. It brims with fantastical sequences and creative twists that make this film a highly original piece of work. We witness Oscar Madly as a happy, creative and harmlessly naïve boy, but traumatic events turns him inwards and force him to repress his emerging sexuality. As a teenager, he falls in love, he makes valuable friendships and he takes guidance from his pet hamster. Yes, we told you it wasn’t just ordinary coming-of-age film. It’s Stephen Dunn’s directorial debut and it won a host of awards, including Best Canadian Feature Film at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Closet Monster

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