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Tariq Raouf June 4, 2021
“Dance of the 41,” set in 1901, follows closeted politician Ignacio de la Torre y Mier (Alfonso Herrera, left) and his life-affirming experience with lover Evaristo (Emiliano Zurita). Photo: Netflix
Every year the world gets a little gayer or so you’d think given the growing list of queer films available to anyone who subscribes to a streaming service.
Gone are the days when one had to settle for a tiny category on Netflix, or limited offerings in a badly lit section of the nearest video rental store. Instead, we find ourselves awed by the outpour of new films highlighting queer voices throughout genres, from rom-coms to thrillers.
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Verdict: Never the Twain
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Only in the past few years have strained parent-child relationships been quite such a propulsive force in cinematic storytelling.
The subject has always popped up here and there. But now, you can t get away from mothers or fathers and their offspring either losing each other, or finding each other, or doing a little of both.
This week it s the dominant theme in no fewer than three new films. One of them even plays it partly for laughs.
Estrangement and abandonment, they re the new Laurel and Hardy. And each film also has a road trip or significant journey of some kind at its heart, almost as if they ve all been workshopped as part of a film-school project.