THEGAYUK FEB/MARCH 2014
THEGAYUK APRIL/MAY ISSUE 3 2014
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FLOATING SKYCRAPERS Polish writer/
director Tomascz Wasilewski's second
feature film is a dark tragic love story
that you immediately sense from the
opening scenes that is doomed.
Although it is Poland's first ever Gay
movie, it is so much more a story about
the search for one's identity and about
being accepted for one's own true self
and accepting others for who they are.
Essentially it’s a movie about love.
Love between a girl and a boy. Between
boy and a boy. Between a mother and a
son, and a father and a son. It is
completely heartbreaking.
Review by Roger Walker-Dack
by Roger Walker-Dack
Koba is a young man who has been training to be a
champion swimmer for 15 years. He lives at home with
his mother who makes somewhat unnatural and
creepy demands on him, plus Sylwia his rather sullen
girlfriend of two years. He is also in the closet and
furtively seeks out brief sexual encounters with other
male swimmers in the locker rooms after practice.
And then one evening it all changes when Sylwia drags
him reluctantly along to an Art Opening and he meets
Michel, there i 2