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($24.99 DVD, Strand)
While still getting a grip on his sexuality, gay teen Pierre (Isaïe Sultan) becomes attached to his seductive yet troubled aunt Nadia (the awesome Beatrice Dalle), an intellectual struggling with demons and the bottle. Pierre’s mom warns him away from the self-destructive woman, but the lad is drawn in to her world of twisted queens and over-the-top drama. Auntie Mame, this is not.
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Guillermo3
Probably a bad movie in every way [exploitative[,but Chris(Pierre) sure is pretty!
Guillermo3
Glad to see there’s finally a film on Goodman !!! Haven’t noticed any public comment on him since his death.
Dating myself,but reading “Growing UP Absurd”,on a prof’s recommendation in the late 60’s,I found it already dated.
“The Empire City”,on the other hand, is a great novel for anyone,of any sexual orientation.
James M. Martin
I cannot tell you how excited I am to see Goodman in a documentary. The trailer is superb. Goodman’s writings had a profound effect on many of us in the Sixties, and he, along with the Beats, served as role models for those growing up absurd. I had not known that he was a co-founder of Gestalt Therapy as I assumed it sprang fully grown from the head of the late Fritz Perls. It makes sense that when I researched a book I wrote about a “Me” Generation human relations seminar similar to est, I came upon Perls, who for all his faults emerges a fascinating, charismatic individual on the order of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Ginsberg’s mentor. Now I see that Goodman, too, was one of the “crazy gurus.”
Joseph
Fassbender is German-Irish: dad is German, mom is Irish.