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The power of Sebastian Meise’s subdued prison drama comes not from big, brash moments but from subtle details. Sound design that hints at the aching emptiness outside the frame and beyond the walls. A bruised light, which gives everything and everyone a half-dead pallor. And Franz Rogowski’s remarkable, contained performance as Hans Hoffman, a queer man who spends much of his life in prison, persecuted for his sexuality in accordance with paragraph of the German penal code.
Time ceases to have the similar meaning behind bars, but thanks to a striking physical transformation, Rogowski guides us through a nonlinear storyline spanning – Hans is released from a concentration camp only to be imprisoned immediately for the crime of his homosexuality – to and the repeal of paragraph Hans’s incarcerations repeatedly reunite him with Viktor (Georg Friedrich), a one-time cellmate whose initial hostility evolves into something deeper. A remarkable closing shot can be read two ways: a spirit so broken that release is no longer an option, or a bold, impetuous statement of love?
Review: Franz Rogowski Puts The Great In The Same-sex attracted Prison Drama 'Great Freedom'
The serial number tattoos that many Holocaust survivors bear on their arms contain become such an indelible and sacred image of that horror and its lasting legacy that the thought of blasting that remembrance off of one&#;s body comes to one today, looking back, as an immediate shock. History, we are told, should not be forgotten&#;especially one as monumental as that. And so when that precise thing happens as an act of fraternal bonding between two prison inmates in Sebastian Meise&#;s intimate masterpiece Great Freedom it took me aback. And yet the movie by its end makes such rich sense of it. Because what if history refuses to enable you go? What if you&#;re trapped inside the cogs of history-making by virtue of your self, of simply being, despite the shifting of seasons and the changing of the guards? What reminders do you need if there&#;s no forgetting in the first place?
When Viktor (Georg Friedrich) first notices the tell-tale numbers on the forearm of his new prison roommate Hans (Franz Rogowski,
From Jon Garcia, the writer-director behind The Falls, Luz is a romantic drama about two men who fall in love while serving time in prison.
Ruben (Ernesto Reyes) has a job driving for his Mafia-connected cousin. When he gets into a machine accident with one of his cousin&#;s &#;girls,&#; killing her, he is sentenced to prison. Carlos (Jesse Tayeh) becomes his cellmate, his mentor and eventually his lover. The two men end up developing major feelings for one another.
Carlos is released from prison before Ruben and goes back to his life running an auto repair shop, and living with his mother and his girlfriend. A couple years later, Ruben is also released and tracks him down. Carlos&#; girlfriend sees what is inception to happen between the two men and leaves.
Now Ruben and Carlos are left to figure out if what they had in prison was authentic, or just two people finding comfort during a difficult situation. In the end, they must determine whether they want to be move forward together and take a valid shot at love on the outside.
Watch the trailer for Luz below. The film is now availab
The trailer’s out for a male lover prison drama celebrating Latin men falling in love.
Luz is a film that follows Ruben Gonzales (played by Ernesto Reyes). Ruben in a young Latino who falls into the world of crime and the mafia. He then winds up in an accident that leads him to prison. While incarcerated, Ruben suffers under the complex hierarchical system within the prison.
It&#;s then that Ruben meets cellmate Carlos (Jesse Tayeh). The two find sentimental stability both within their cell and then re-meet after getting released. Once outside, the friends-turned-lovers ponder whether what they had was real or a fantasy due to their time behind bars.
This indie film written and directed by Jon Garcia (The Falls Trilogy, Tandom Hearts) is making the rounds at the art house circuit. The feature, which was produced by Garcia alongside Michael Repsche, Lacy Todd, and Rodney Washington, is currently being screened in Australia at Queer Screen’s Mardi Gras Clip Festival, according to Q News.
As for here in the U.S., the movie first premiered at the Reeling Film Festival in Chicago la