Playing with the idea of a documentary, I was not quite sure of placing this film directed by Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross that is set in a bar on its closing night. Bring Streep and group they fix it – although Olivia Pope is the one who needs fixing this time. That’s exactly what Murphy does in this Netflix film where the high school cancels the prom because a female student wanted to take another female student as her partner. If you are Ryan Murphy, it should not be difficult for you to get Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Kerry Washington, James Cordon, Keegan-Michael Key, and Andrew Rannells as your cast. It is a sad state of affairs that none of them is from India, or that 12 of them are in English anyway, let me not analyze it before telling you what made it. Without further ado, criticize me all you want for not including the above, because some of them are genuinely better than the films on my list, but these are my top 20 LGBT(IQA+) films of 2020.
Like a classic pseudo-English literature student, I am waiting to read ‘Funny Boy,’ ‘A Suitable Boy,’ and ‘The True History of Kelly Gang’ before I watch them. I am positive there are a number of international films that have not got the attention they deserve or have made any list. Notables, other than the three mentioned above include: ‘ Aviva,’ ‘Bad Education,’ ‘The Boys in the Band,’ ‘Circus of Books,’ ‘ Ema,’ ‘ The Half of It,’ ‘If It Were Love,’ ‘Lingua Franca,’ ‘Moffie,’ ‘ Mucho Mucho Amor,’ ‘Straight Up!,’ ‘Sublet,’ ‘Supernova,’ and ‘Uncle Frank ’ and these are only the films I have watched. It is already May and international publications will soon compile the best films of 2021 so far, come end of June, and I thought it is high time that this list comes out.Ģ020, all the same, was my most productive year in watching films. A few like ‘And Then We Danced’ (this one hurts the most!), ‘Falling,’ and ‘Cicada’ almost made the cut, but I wanted to stick to 20 and had my reasons. In consequence, you may find your favorite queer film missing from this list because I have not watched it yet. I may have seen some of them – most of them with traction but not all – let alone queer films. I am, personally, queasy with the term ‘best’ because I have not watched all of the films out there. Even there the difference between gender identity and sexual orientation, or that the two are different is difficult to grasp and hold onto.
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Rarely does an advertisement get released about who an intersex person is, even by UN Free and Equal or other equal rights crusader, forget alone a feature film or documentary on their lives, feelings, and mess. As far as LGBT films of 2020 are concerned, this spread is still limited to gay, bi, and lesbian films, with a smattering of trans films.īut a whole lot of people who identify are intersex, questioning, asexual, pansexual, and others are yet to be explored in the film even two decades into the 21 st century. Trans films had trans characters mostly played by straight men in costumes with a few exceptions. You could argue that these were mostly gay or lesbian films, and you would not be wrong. ‘ Beats per Minute’ (2017) was a huge hit, internationally and so did ‘ Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ (2019). ‘ Brokeback Mountain’ (2005) was a gamechanger that missed the Oscar ‘Blue Is the Warmest Colour’ was laden with issues but won the Palme d’Or ‘ Carol’ won critical acclaim ‘ Moonlight’ (2016) won the Oscar for Best Picture in a rather dodgy way in the history of the award show even if its Black director did not. LGBTIQA+ films have become somewhat mainstream in the 21 st century.