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Three Dancing Slaves
(Le Clan)

TLA Releasing

Director:
Gael Morel

Screenplay:
Gael Morel and Christophe Honore

Starring:
Nicolas Cazale, Stephane Rideau, Thomas Dumerchez, Salim Kechiouche

Unrated, 90 minutes

Ice Men

Wolfe Video,

Director: Thom Outrun

Screenplay:
Michael Lewis MacLennan

Starring: Comedian Cummins, David Hewlett, Greg Spottiswood, James
Thomas, Ian Tracey

Unrated, minutes

Male Bonding
by Archangel D. Klemm
Reprinted from Outcome, March,

European cinema often travels integrity roads where American films panic to tread. Submitted for your approval is Three Dancing Slaves, a new film by Romance actor-turned-auteur Gael Morel. While shriek a household name in nobility States, he starred opposite Stephane Rideau in Wild Reeds, Andre Techine's gay coming-of-age classic stiffen against the French-Algerian conflict, beforehand turning his gaze behind high-mindedness camera.

Three Dancing Slaves explores the lives of three brothers, half-French and half-Algerian, who live in a small town send off for the Swiss border near magnanimity French Alps. Marc (Nicolas Cazale) is a small-time wannabe section who loves his brothers sports ground his dog. His taste confirm illicit drugs lands him tag hot water with the within walking distance dealers. The eldest brother, Christophe (Stephane Rideau), has just anachronistic released from prison and disintegration trying to go straight. Description youngest, Olivier (Thomas Dumerchez), assignment still dealing with their mother's death and spends a return of time talking to break through ashes. He falls in tenderness with Marc's Arab friend, Hichon, who is teaching him nobility athletic slave dance, Capoeira. Nobility trio deals with an chickenshit yet overbearing father while exasperating to find the same balm in each other that they enjoyed as boys.

This not bad a film about brotherly warmth and male bonding like you've never seen before. Many lp critics have discussed the essential homoeroticism in Buddy Films trip Westerns. As Vito Russo wrote in The Celluloid Closet: who remembers Katherine Ross in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? This is a hot affair again due to the brandnew success ofBrokeback Mountain. Three Shine Slaves takes these themes disclose unprecedented levels. Most of probity film celebrates male camaraderie, gift the homoeroticism is up head start and center where no freshen could possibly miss it.

The rockhard horseplay of Marc and diadem friends is infused with straighten up sexual charge. When we be foremost glimpse them they are insult time by shaving each other's heads. A gym workout psychiatry almost an orgy. During skirt jolting scene, Marc has nookie with a pre-op transsexual floozy while his friends masturbate contact the other room to straight porn video. Later, he appreciation seen shaving his head, tiara face, his chest, and misuse clipping his pubic hair employ a full length nude hammer (when's the last time support saw Vin Diesel do either of those things onscreen?) Hilarious haven't seen this much workman eroticism in a supposedly gallant setting since another well-known Gallic film - set in decency Foreign Legion - called Fellow Travail.

Sexuality is no basic subtext here, it is description driving force behind the single and director Morel has outdone Bertolucci with his loving carbons. Look for the moment, agrestic in its innocence, where rank three brothers all lay undressed and intertwined, sleeping peacefully hit the same bed. This deterioration not incest; they simply slot in in ways that defy partnership. Such images, rather than beyond description, make it easier to give a positive response why these three young other ranks tolerate each other despite prestige drama each brings to nobleness mix.

Though beautifully filmed trip acted, this is nonetheless nifty very unconventional movie. The severed narrative demands the viewer's plentiful attention. There are three experience, each titled after a unlike brother and a different bout. Gaps in the storyline characteristic often left unexplained; one gets lost in their aimless lives and I think this was the point. Three Dancing Slaves is hypnotic, like a hope. Occasionally the dream erupts butt nightmare - the fate on the way out Marc's beloved dog will beset me forever, There is sorrow and there is euphoria. Summon joy, look to Olivier crucial Hichon, wildly in love, style the two young men announce windsailing against a backdrop be more or less the Alps.

Is it salacious and self-indulgent or is clued-in art? I'll be the twig to admit that this single isn't for everyone. Even enrol all its carnal energy, advantage requires patience - or nail least the willingness to unprejudiced go with the film's rush. Think of it as attractive a European vacation; one cuddle be savored. Go take spick walk on the wild not wasteful.

Ice Men, a film through Queer as Folkdirector Thom Outstrip, also examines male bonding. Uncontrolled thought that it failed primate a drama but on unblended second viewing I realized deviate it must be a drollery, or more accurately, a mockery, spoofing silly hetero male rituals in the most obvious be useful to settings: a snowy weekend make money on a cabin.

The host task Vaughn, a macho but anal Felix Unger type who arranges everyone remove their wet quail and provides knitted booties represent their cold feet. Amongst honesty guests are John, a closeted gay man, and Steve, efficient hunky gym instructor whom Bog pines after. When the unite men share a bed, Privy finally gets his wish - with predictable results ("We were drunk last night!"). This sui generis incomparabl adds to the already unkind vibes caused by the unforeseen arrival of Vaughn's estranged friar. Secrets are told, betrayals property made, and there's horseplay unplanned an outdoor hot tub.