The first trailer for Eliza Hittman’s highly anticipated Beach Rats finally came out today, and it’s doing as good a job at enticing us to see the film as a recent Daily Beast feature, which hailed the movie as “the rare gay drama, and maybe the next wave of queer storytelling, that makes you feel uncomfortable.”
Set in Coney Island, the movie centers around Frankie (played by model-turned-actor Harris Dickinson), a closeted teen who compulsively cruises gay hookup sites. The performance, according to Daily Beast, was “one of the most grueling, sensual, and captivating star turns at Sundance. And certainly one of the most enticingly naked.”
Curious?
Earlier this year, The Guardian reported that “Hittman was inspired to make Beach Rats after seeing a shirtless selfie online, captivated by the fine line between heteronormative bravado and homoeroticism.”
“I was completely happy to be part of something that did normalize male nudity,” Dickinson, who’s straight, tells The Daily Beast.
“I was talking to someone the other day who asked about it, and I said to them, ‘Have you seen how much female nudity there is throughout the history of film and TV?’ So yeah, I was comfortable with it, and I’m quite comfortable with my sexuality and my body.”
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ProfessorMoriarty
Wow, they went the whole MPAAand official commercial release route. Looks promising!
Mike999
No it doesn’t.
SactoMan
Yes it does.
scotshot
Catfight!
Mike999
Judging by the trailer Beach Rats looks cheesy, cheap and typically coy gay-boy fantasy bullshit. Another teasing exploitation film shot on the cheap and using semi-pretty, bad actors. You’d think by 2017 we’d have moved past this kind of crap, but I guess not.
Juanjo
Well, Mikey the movie critic has spoken. I guess the rest of us should just believe him and ignore the movie.
SactoMan
The bitter movie critic….
scotshot
Catfight!
Celtic
Lad, you have serious, serious issues. Get help. I came out long before you were even created in your old man’s sac. You think this film is farce? Really! It’s 2017 and in many respects it is still 1968. Get a life, or STFU.
musicman
It’s actually a great film saw it at Sundance Film Festival. To the gentleman who referred to it as looking cheap and etc. it’s an independent film and all of them are produced on low budgets . That being said some of the greatest films are independent and have been produced on low budgets . Go see the film it’s moving and haunting .
Frankly Wild
This had me at “hyper-erotic” and “nudity”. I go to the movies to be entertained and I’m unabashedly a fan of homoeroticism. Yup.
BigDaddy58
Can’t wait to check it out, hopefully Netflix will pick it up and this country boy will give you the real dope on it..
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Terrycloth
Why must they film everything so dark ? If this trailer is anything to go by..I’ll pass..I like to see what I’m watching..seemed darkly lit…too bad. Could’ve had promise
The Tower of Power
It looks very predictable. 99% of movies about gay romance either have one of the partners dying or abandoning the other in the end.
I bet this one does too.
See The Fluffer, and The Circuit for similar examples.
DannX68
That’s mostly in American movies, a lot of European gat movies have happy endings.
DannX68
@ DannX68 …gaY movies.
SFHandyman
He better not die at the end.
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Stephen
Looks very promotional sing … to the bitter table for one! … comments just know that comments showing that you are a lifestyle cynic? I refuse to cynic to your level. S,all towns rarely see gay films and Love Simon was one of the theatres most attended film. I think this is a bit R for my village. But happy to make a trip into town to see it when it’s out! It’s so refreshing not to have to translate everything sexual and or romantic from straight characters to feeling them in my world to empathize! It’s a brave new world. But yeah, as previously said, when it’s 11 pm in LA it’s still 1969 everywhere, somewhere. Boys in the Band was what I lived through. You guys don’t know Jack until u have been unlawfully not allowed to have clubs, to mafia owned bars to Stonewall and then AIDS. I feel like PTSD hit the survivors.