Bizarre [DVD]

Strange but stunning, Good gay themed film

Good film

Bizarre sums it up , not a great film ,

A good dvd

... but there is a feeling that in the end Bizarre doesn't amount to all that much. The ending is particularly disappointing, led by the desire to crank up the psychological derangement to a point where you are just lost among inexplicable actions. But up to the last five minutes it has a certain amount going for it - a vivid sense of images, a very beautiful lead actor, Pierre Prieur - I mean, really absolutely perfect to look at in the way a 17-year-old boy can be. Many of the scenes are so enhanced by his face - and another boy who pops up later is also full-on eye candy. The more trans character who makes up the trio also has a certain aesthetic interest. There are two lesbian club owners, one of whom was charming, the other less so - the club itself, called Bizarre, is a sort of outre sex show that I found sometimes a bit much, although it isn't boring - that much can be said. It features Mat Fraser and the guy called Rumi from The Cockettes, who sings rather well. I was less keen on what Fraser was doing, but normally he is great and he inclines me towards affection for the film, but then I think of the ending - confused further by an image of Prieur getting on to the subway naked in what seems to be a totally pointless reference to Theorem. But the image itself is amazing. The problem really is the tone - if only it had remained closer to The Cockettes, but here there is a more savage undertow. It looks a bit like a series of Nan Goldin photos, but again the warmth of those is lacking - or perhaps a modern version of the Jo Dallesandro trilogy, but again, without the charm. It's almost as if the film is saying: those things are no longer possible. Etienne Faure doesn't seem to handle the narrative aspect well, but the visuals do offer some compensation, both the filming of the actors and the edgy streets of Brooklyn as we follow Prieur's lovely gait, as well as the claustrophobia of the club. it is a film of good moments (the second boy coming on to the feminine one, a real whoosh factor) that finally unravels into meaninglessness in the last ten minutes.

No wonder it is called 'Bizarre'. You enter into a sort of a dream composition. A burlesque cabaret.You're just so drawn to Morris' asexuality/ambiguity and to Luka's androgyneity - it's so erotic and it keeps you wandering and hypnotised to the screen - there's a lot of space for imagination. Emotionally dense.It's kind of a freak show - and I mean this in a good way as I'm very attracted to the bizarre, I like odd, unusual films.Think for yourself - it's that kind of film!Oh, and has loads of eye candy 😍

the title says it all - BIZARRE !!!!!! and meaningless, I could not tell you what it was all about