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Note: This year’s installment of Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival officially takes place online and begins Sept. 24. The festival lasts through Oct. 4, although select films will be available for screening for a few days past closing.
Breaking Fast (***) (Sept. 24-27)
What I don’t know about Islam could fill the Quran. Breaking Fast provides a lot of insight without being didactic. A discussion of how Muslim parents react to their sons’ coming out reveals a surprising support spectrum of 0-100, like almost any other group, and the religious reasons behind their attitudes. Set in West Hollywood, it’s billed as a romantic comedy but is really more of a drama, not even a dramedy, though it does have some comic relief, including a couple of really funny lines and a major character who’s the kind of flaming stereotype we rarely see anymore. The story begins one Ramadan, the holy month during which Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset. When he learns his partner is going to marry a woman to avoid coming out to his 80-year-old father, Mo (Haaz Sleiman) ref
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Waldemar Torenstra and Anna Drijver in "Bride Flight"
“BRIDE FLIGHT” My rating: C+ (Opening Aug. 5 at the Glenwood at Red Bridge)
130 minutes | MPAA rating: R
The Kiwi entry “Bride Flight” is less an art film than a romance with grand ambitions.
Unspooling over four decades, this effort from director Ben Sombogaart and writer Marieke van der Pol follows three women and one man from the Netherlands who in the years after World War II attempt to rebuild their lives as emigres to New Zealand.
In a prologue we meet Frank (Rutger Hauer), operator of one of New Zealand’s most successful vineyards. The old fellow dies of a heart attack and word goes out for his loved ones to gather for a sendoff.
Among them are three elderly women (Petra Laseur, Pleuni Touw, Willeke van Ammelrooy) who arrived in the country at the same time as Frank. In fact, all four flew south on the same passenger plane, determined to leave behind post-war European misery and start life anew in the Southern Hemisphere.
“Bride Flight” takes place both in the present — at Frank‘s funeral — and in the memories of the three women whose lives were touched by this lifelong bachelor.
On the long plane ride we meet Esther (Anna Drijver), a Jewish beauty who lost her entire family to t