Review of Weekend (2011) by Viktor G — 04 Aug 2013

Sad that I had to wait for this film to see something actually serious about homosexual love, instead of all the cliches that fly around the concept.

It is to appreciate that the director avoids the transvestisms and the crazy acting that all the movies attribute to the people with this sexual preference.

So, finally we got a film that talks about the truth, it tell us a story about two homosexuals, but not actually remarking that fact. It's just a love story, the story of two people that meet in a pub and somehow they start to like each other: they talk, they laugh, they argue, they have sex, they start to know each other. The conception of the couple is truthful and real. I'm sure many couples could feel identified while watching this film.

But still, the director has the ability to inform, or maybe, to apporach the viewer to (just) a fraction of the reality of the homosexuals: the difficulty of adaptation, the taboo, the ignorance of society, the "inheritance" that the character Glen mentions several times, etc. Almost all the dialogues have the aim to throw some light at that theme that no one actually wants to talk about, the aim to open our eyes. However, in my opinion they abuse. It is sad, but the fact that the characters mostly talk about their repression is due to the bad feeling that has turn into a constant.

I would have liked to see some conversations about other topics; however, let's face the facts, in real life, this theme might be the main one when two homosexuals talk to each other.