Film
Director Victoria Verseau’s Trans Memoria is an oneiric, brutally frank meditation on the pains and rewards of transgender surgery.
Heartwarming themes of love lost and the emotional power of music are undercut by a script constructed for the sake of dramatizing ideas rather than characters.
Tracie Laymon’s comic drama about the serendipitous connection between a 25-year-old woman whose sense of self is fraying and a man stymied by loss is both entertaining and profound.
Despite “The Annihilation of Fish”’s warmth and optimism, it’s a wonky film.
We return to my coverage of the 25th annual Boston Underground Film Festival, our own little local celebration of oddballs, freaks, and celluloid weirdos of all sorts.
Director Alain Guiraudie’s latest film is a darkly hilarious, polymorphously perverse paean to compassion.
Considering the current political climate and its accompanying cultural backlashes, BUFF’s (continued) commitment to diversity in film feels especially pointed in its 25th incarnation.
With its fabulous ’50s costumes and visceral wrestling scenes, “Queen of the Ring” is a blast from the past.
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