Saturday, October 07, 2006

What I'm Watching #32


mangosouffle
Originally uploaded by Randuwa.
It's a movie weekend....

"Mango Souffle" is touted as "The first gay male film from India." And as such it deserves a certain reverence. It was created from a play and the stage/theatrical aspects of it's production are as apparent as the level breeches after Katrina. Even some of the actors don't seem to get the difference between the two mediums. So the drama becomes a melodrama, because the actors over play their roles as if they were on a stage with poor acoustics.

Those are the "Delta's". A "plus" is the performance of Ankur Vikal. Totally sexy, completely in the moment -- he holds the pieces together, even though I'm left wondering 'why bother?'.

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