Four Moons

Whenever I see a good movie (especially the rare good "gay" movie), I like to blog about it. I watched a Mexican film called Four Moons (Cuarto Lunas) this weekend and I enjoyed it. The movie covered the lives of four different story lines involving gay guys of different ages. The youngest was a kid who was just learning to deal with being gay, the next story line dealt with two college students who'd grown up together and ended up becoming involved (although one of them was uncomfortable letting anyone know he was gay), the next situation involved a gay couple in their thirties and one of the men was cheating on the other one but the non-cheating partner wanted to try and save their relationship, and the final story line involved a retired professor who hooked up with a hustler at a bathhouse. I could have done without the story of the kid being bullied because he had a crush on his male cousin and the professor's steam room hookup, but the other two stories were quite good. I thought the film dealt with the relationships in a smart and realistic way. It's interesting that some of the best gay movies out now are done outside of the US. For all of the lip service Hollywood actors, producers, directors, etc. give about LGBT rights and LGBT causes and all of the money flowing through Hollywood, the US still fail when it comes to creating good LGBT films. How come countries that certainly are less gay-friendly are willing and able to get funding to make good LGBT films?