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# FILM REVIEW: Boys On Film 21 – Peccadillo Pictures
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/film-review-boys-on-film-21-peccadillo-pictures/
- Published: 2021-03-21T15:15:09.000Z
- Updated: 2021-03-20T08:11:34.000Z
- Description: Brian Butler samples films about a Queer “geeza“, a 1930’s drag queen and much more
- Author: Brian Butler
- Tags: Arts, Reviews, Iris Prize, Peccadillo Pictures

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[](https://www.peccapics.com/?ref=scenemag.co.uk)[Peccadillo Pictures’](https://www.peccapics.com/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) latest offering – **Boys On Film 21 : Beautiful Secret-** takes us to Margate, Gibraltar, Berlin under the Nazis and much more in a great and varied collection of short Queer films.

**Memoirs Of a Geeza** presents us with a hard street-wise boy who becomes a hard Queer man, trying out his sexuality and finding, to his surprise, that his family is ‘like a wall of arms protecting me “.

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We Are Dancers, for my money the best of this bunch, is set in a seedy gay nightclub in Berlin in 1933 the night after the burning of the Reichstag , which gave the Nazis a perfect excuse for a clamp-down on amongst others the Queer community.

Hans Piesbergen is outstanding as the middle-aged drag artist Hansi, who surrounds himself with beautiful boys who urge him to leave Berlin while it’s still safe to do so. Hansi’s ex-boyfriend, now in the Gestapo, comes to warn him of his impending “ protective custody “ , but Hansi’s determination to be himself seems almost self-destructive when he confronts the Nazi raiders with an outrageous camp song about Frau Hitler . The end is inevitable, but there could so easily be a full-length drama here. Hard t0 watch but a must.

**My Father Works At Night** introduces us to Felix and Vincent, two gay men who meet in a changing room – yes I know, sounds ike the stuff of porn- but actually it’s a touching if ultimately slightly inexplicable tale of Queer love and the family violence it often causes.

**L’ Homme Jetee** is an elegiac piece about a young gay man who longs to go to sea with the trawler men he sees at the pier. When Giuseppe takes an interest in him, he introduces him to a macho ritualistic initiation which is violent and worrying. Will he catch the boat ? Will he catch Giuseppe?

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My Sweet Prince shows us a troubled Isle of Wight boy ,Tommy whose anxious mother worries about his fiends but knows nothing about his internet hook-ups as Bitter End with the aptly named My Sweet Prince. Engaging but needs more to it.

**Dungarees**, which I’ve previously reviewed as part of the Iris Prize short films festival makes another appearance here and it’s an endearing tale of a boy’s journey to girlhood. It’s also quirky and funny.

**Clothes and Blow f**eatures voiceover performer Daniel and his appetite for fully clothed oral sex with strangers he finds online – hence the film’s title. When his mother and sister arrive in London from abroad , there’s a triangular and comedic sequence about coming out, family disputes and eventual true love – well who knows ?

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A Normal Boy starts with a predictable pick-up in a bar . The inevitable sex scene is ruined by one of the two, who’s drunk, falling asleep It’s further complicated when a female flatmate arrives. It’s a bit like the two guys’ sex – unsatisfying but interesting.

Finally **Pretty Boy.** Kevin is a sullen teenager skipping school and meeting a secret boyfriend Nico. When his mother finds it, she becomes violent, saying : You’re not one of them, what’ve I done wrong ? Not you two- not in my house “.But maybe out of the dreadful rejection there can be hope for the boys.

The films are on dvd, Blu-Ray or On Demand [**or go to peccapics.com**](https://www.peccapics.com/product/boysonfilm21/?ref=scenemag.co.uk)