BERLIN : When Jules, a cross-dressing star of London's queer scene, is brutally attacked by a thug with something to hide, he concocts an elaborate revenge worthy of Shakespeare: he seduces his hypermasculine assaulter and films them having sex.An intense tragedy by Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping, 'Femm
BERLIN : When Jules, a cross-dressing star of London's queer scene, is brutally attacked by a thug with something to hide, he concocts an elaborate revenge worthy of Shakespeare: he seduces his hypermasculine assaulter and films them having sex.
"It's a big subject. It's big what happens to Jules," Freeman told Reuters of the film, which premiered at the Berlinale film festival last Sunday."We were very interested in the archetype of the kind of avenging anti-hero. I think queer characters often aren't allowed the agency to play that role." But when the besotted Preston discovers Jules' plan to out him with a sex tape, he flips into an uncontrollable rage, rapidly drawing the film to a tragic climax.
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