Boy Culture

Just finished watching a preview of this smart, sexy queer film that's showing at MIFF this year, as I'm interviewing the director next week.

Directed by Q. Allan Brocka (Eating Out), Boy Culture is a film about love, lust, and the fear of love.

A strong cast led by the brooding Derek Magyar (pictured) as the cynical narrator X, coupled with a clever script and an eye for subverting the stereotypical, memorably enhance what could have been a dull story about a hooker's need to be loved in someone else's hands.

It's definitely not your stereotypical gay movie.

For starters, it's a gay film that's not about coming out (5 points). Nor is it sacharine and sentimental (5 points). It's not a fluffy rom-com about vaccuous pretty boys (5 points). It features a male prostitute who's neither drug-fucked nor who dies/gets raped/gets AIDS over the course of the movie (10 points) and it features characters over the age of 30 (15 points).

Boy Culture has humour, a warm heart, and a hefty dose of the sort of unresolved sexual tension that will be familiar to anyone who's ever lived in share households.

It's showing at MIFF on Sat 29th of July, 7:20 PM; and Fri 4th of August, 7:00 PM.

I heartily recommend it.