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Directed by Bill Mousoulis | 74 minutes | 15+ | Special Presentation |
ENCORE: 11:00am Saturday, 16 May | Balam Balam Place - Cinema 4 | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes ADDITIONAL SEATS ADDED: 6:15pm Sunday, 17 May | Balam Balam Place - Cinema 4 | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes
Should-be Australian queer classic by saint of underground cinema and Senses of Cinema founder Bill Mousoulis
Co-Presented by Palomino Bar
Several interconnecting stories of love, loss, desire and despair in 90s Melbourne on gorgeous grainy 16mm. An ensemble of gay and straight characters makes moves, crash into beds, and listen to Madonna in the moody midnights. Matin pursues Paul, who’s keen on Anna, who falls for Finola, who’s involved with Cindy. Heartache haunts every recognisable street corner, and it’s so romantic.
Desire is a shouldbe classic of 90s queer cinema, written and directed by true Australian cinema hero and Senses of Cinema founder Bill Mousoulis (<i>My Darling in Stirling, Lovesick</i>). This movie is sweet, funny, erotic, and tragic in equal: a rare opportunity to swoon over an unheralded banger with a crowd of fellow lovers and losers.
Screens with a Live Q&A with Bill Mousoulis.
SIMILAR: Happy Together, Before Sunset, the films of Matt Farley & Charles Roxburgh, What Happened Was…
“What a vibe. Traversing the bisexual space. Somewhere out in town, down by the waves, in an empty park, on a fading couch, up in the sky, there is SOMETHING HAPPENING to SOMEBODY, and that SOMETHING holds everything else inside it.” - Daniel Tune, MovieJuice
“Bill Mousoulis should be spoken of in the same breath as Linklater, Akerman, Altman as a master of capturing people in their places, all the pain and joy rubbing off on their local street corners. I want to see this movie in a cinema and let the yearning flow through me.” - Kai Perrignon, BUFF Head Programmer
Country: Australia
Year: 1999
Language: English