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Title: Berlin’s Gay Movie Awards: THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, THE MOUTH OF THE WOLF
Post by: Shana A on February 21, 2010, 08:16:22 AM
Post by: Shana A on February 21, 2010, 08:16:22 AM
Berlin's Gay Movie Awards: THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, THE MOUTH OF THE WOLF
by Alessandro Moretti | Feb 20, 2010
http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/teddy-awards-the-kids-are-all-right-open-32187/ (http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay/teddy-awards-the-kids-are-all-right-open-32187/)
The best documentary was Pietro Marcello's La bocca del lupo / The Mouth of the Wolf, described by Neil Young in The Auteurs as an "impressionistic documentary-fiction hybrid of the kind I usually have limited patience with, but which here works beautifully from beginning to end." Set in the Genoa waterfront, The Mouth of the Wolf chronicles the relationship between a macho ex-con and his lover, a transsexual former junkie. Their relationship is related by way of extracts from their love letters.
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And finally, the Teddy Jury Award went to Jake Yuzna's Brave New Worldish Open, about a young hermaphrodite who hits the road with a couple who has undergone plastic surgery so as to resemble one another and thus become a single entity of sorts. Along the way, they meet a transsexual who falls in love with a young punk and gets pregnant.