Body language is explored to provocative ends in Easy Tiger, a gay Belgian drama from filmmaker Karel Tuytschaever.
The film tells the story of a psychologist (Mickaël Pelissier) whose “seemingly perfect” city life is upended by an unexpected moment with a client, a deaf man who awakens a desire deep within him.
Their charged encounter has a ripple effect on the psychologist’s life. Per Easy Tiger‘s official synopsis, his “inescapable desires for his male client force the [him] to look at who he does not want to be, in order to find out who he actually is.”
Though the French and Englishes languages are used sparingly throughout the film, its narrative largely unfolds through International Sign Language as Tuytschaever explores physicality and the body itself as a storytelling device. With this unique approach, Easy Tiger is a radical feature that aims to provide “as much as possible, the same experience for both hearing and non/partially-hearing viewers.”
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Easy Tiger has been racking up accolades in 2022 while playing the international film festival circuit, including its selection as the Best Queer Narrative at France’s Beyond The Curve fest, and the Best Narrative Feature at the 1904 Deaf Film Festival.
The film just screened at Dublin, Ireland’s 30th annual GAZE International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, which has made the feature available to watch digitally via its virtual screening room, now through October 8.
You can find out more about Easy Tiger‘s virtual screening opportunities here. Watch its sensual, meditative, and largely dialogue-free trailer below:
Scout
From the trailer, it looks very slow moving.
Kangol2
“Englishes”? Just a little editing will go a long way!
IanHunter
Body language, sign language, French, English…The subtiles would give me a headache.
Phillip
As a person who depends on CC (closed captioned) and subtitles, I would be lost without them. I’m hard of hearing and many actors in today’s cinema mumble their lines. I lose them completely when they turn their head away from the camera or are speaking out of the view of the camera where I hear their voice but cannot see their lips move.
Thus, having subtitles and CC is a must for me.
Dick Gozinia
At best, this would be a ‘crossword’ movie for me as in, “I would be working a crossword while watching this movie.”
SparkyMICH
Were these the parts left on the editing room floor?
pridefilmfest
Stream EASY TIGER at Pride Film Fest, pridefilm.org, from May 24 to June 4.