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# FILM REVIEW: Peccadillo: Boys On Film 20
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/film-review-peccadillo-boys-on-film-20/
- Published: 2020-05-22T11:46:54.000Z
- Updated: 2020-05-22T11:46:54.000Z
- Description: Brian Butler finds much to celebrate in Peccadillo Pictures 20th birthday offering Heaven Can Wait
- Author: Brian Butler
- Tags: Arts, Out & About, Reviews, Television, Alexis Gregory, Kane Surry, Peccadillo Pictures

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****Peccadillo Pictures are celebrating their 20th birthday this month in style with the release of Heaven Can Wait – their latest compilation in the Boys On Film series.**

Some eleven films, including two animations, represent film makers from Tunisia, Sweden, UK, USA, Estonia, Croatia, Canada and New Zealand.

It’s a lot to take in at one sitting – I spread it over two nights and one morning- and some are worth re-visiting , for the sake of clarity if nothing else.

From the eleven , here’s my choice, but make up your own mind.

Chromophobia is a Tunisian animation about a young gay boy’s first love in a repressive state, and the consequences.

Just Me, features Brookside actor Philip Olivier , whose character is just about to be married to his girlfriend when he has a chance encounter with his ex-boyfriend, now a policeman – again with dire consequences.

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Don’t Blame Jack is one of the most atmospheric and emotionally compelling of the collection. Trying to cope with mental illness, the hero fights his meds and looks for stability – and seems to find it with a new crush- played delicately by Kane Surry. It’s moving and beautifully filmed.

Foreign Lovers has a New York backdrop for an old-fashioned romance between an actor and a dancer – can someone fall in love in 24 hours ? Watch it to see.

Mankind is an altogether different kind of story , with a science fiction element that treats the idea of dependency, exploration and a free spirit with an outstanding moodily magnificent performance by Alexis Gregory.

RUOK ? Is a crazy Grindr-induced love triangle which is funny and bang up to date.

And finally, Manivald is an animation about fox/humans hybrids in a mad sex- driven fantasy that you’ll have to watch twice.

Go to [Peccadillo Pictures](https://vimeo.com/peccapics/vod%5Fpages?ref=scenemag.co.uk) for screening details or to buy.

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