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Cut Sleeve Boys (2006) and Front Cover (2015). While his previous two full-length features dealt with a younger age demographic, his new movie, Twilight s Kiss/Suk Suk (Strand Releasing) introduces us to men in the twilight of their gay years. Fastidious Hong Kong taxi driver Pak (Tai-Bo) is married to the long-suffering Ching (Patra Au), to whom he is not especially kind. Pak and Ching have a married son Lok (Gordon Wong Kwak Fai), the father of their granddaughter Lei Lei (Chi Sin Pun). They also have a daughter named Fong (Hiu Yee Wong), who becomes engaged to Zheung (Yixin Hu) because she is pregnant. Unbeknownst to Ching (or is it?), Pak leads a double life. Loving father to his children and granddaughter at home, he cruises public bathrooms and parks for sex with men. ....
Alamy Director Myriam Verreault’s Innu drama following a pair of childhood friends (Sharon Ishpatao Fontaine and Yamie Grégoire) whose friendship is tested as their lives evolve in very different ways gives new meaning to the idea that what is specific can be universal. Verreault and co-screenwriter Naomi Fontaine draw audiences into the story of two girls who share the same promise of many their age: to be there for each other forever. Using their tightknit First Nations community as a backdrop to highlight the prevalence of love and familial protection, as well as a proliferation of drugs and abuse, the filmmakers focus on the complex relationship between the young women whose lives and desires send them in opposite directions as they grow up. The ardent Shaniss (Grégoire) becomes a mother early in her life and often leans on Mikuan (Fontaine) and her family for support. Meanwhile, Mikuan takes an interest in poetry and falls for a white boy whose mere presence suggests ....
Ray Yeung On The Closeted Older Men Who Inspired 'Suk Suk' junkee.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from junkee.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Twilight’s Kiss. For a long time, the future was inconceivable for gay men. Even before the Aids pandemic, social stigma led to the pathologisation and criminalisation of the global community. Gay men lived in the shadows of society, maintaining their veneer of heteronormative stability by marrying straight women at great cost to themselves and their families. This idea of hiding one’s identity might seem like a distant memory to today’s self-actualised youth. Still, we purposefully leave behind our forebears to carry their trauma alone. “Their sadness and shame” are the story Yeung wants to tell. He says, “We wouldn’t be where we are today without what these men have gone through. They need to be seen.” ....
G. Allen Johnson February 16, 2021Updated: February 18, 2021, 7:35 am Hoi (Ben Yuen, left) and Pak (Tai-Bo) are two older gay men who find each other in Ray Yeung’s Hong Kong film “Twilight’s Kiss.” Photo: Strand Releasing Hong Kong is not known for its vibrant LGBTQ cinema, and for good reason: It wasn’t until recent generations that it was OK to come out of the closet, and even now, there’s not quite the same level of acceptance as there is in much of the Western world. So, men like 65-year-old retiree Hoi and 70-year-old taxi driver Pak wonder if it’s time, near the end of their lives, to finally live as their true selves. ....