![]() ![]() That puts it altogether a world away from the simple, sensitive intimacy of Loev ( now streaming on Netflix). A sprawling, neon-lit trawl through the underground gay club circuit of Buenos Aires, openly inviting comparisons to the Gaspar Noé school of provocation, it’s at once tough-minded and giddy on alkyl nitrites. Several of its most exciting selections – The Ornithologist, A Date for Mad Mary, Taekwondo – have been profiled in this column before, but they’ve also brought Argentine director Edgardo Castro’s buzzing La Noche (2016) out of the shadows. Over at the ever-improving BFI Player, meanwhile, an LGBT Best of 2017 collection keeps the gay playlist going nicely. It’s a performance, and a film, that leaves us with a blurrier, glitchier picture of millennial coming out than God’s Own Country, though both films present a fraught route to the closet door for those on society’s fringes. ![]() As a brooding, sexually conflicted teen attempting to secretly satisfy his curiosity in the dimmed, nameless world of anonymous gay chatrooms and nervous, no-strings hookups, Dickinson clutches a tangle of inchoate erotic impulses and personal insecurities into one intensely felt, fevered character portrait.
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