‘The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo’ Review: Chile’s Oscar Submission Is a Tender Western Pastiche About the Origins of Hate

‘The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo’ Review: Chile’s Oscar Submission Is a Tender Western Pastiche About the Origins of Hate

Diego Céspedes directs a 1980s period piece about a mining town that can't come to terms with the origins of its sexually transmitted plague.

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo — Diego Céspedes [Review]

Pedro Lemebel, the writer who chronicled Chilean queer life throughout the fall of the Pinochet regime, the rise of democracy, and the AIDS epidemic, proclaimed the strength and vulnerability of queer life in his poem “Manifesto (I Speak from My Difference)”: “I speak of sweetness, comrade / You have no idea / What it costs [...] The post The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo — Diego Céspedes [Review] appeared first on In Review Online.

Diego Cespedes on "The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo"

The director discusses this frisky tale from Chile of a girl who starts to see that not all feel the way she does about her family. The post Diego Cespedes on a Glimpse of the Future in “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo” appeared first on The Moveable Fest.