FEMME – May 9, 7:00PM @ Cinestudio
FEMME
Screening Thursday, May 9, 2024, 7:00 PM @ Cinestudio
With his performances as Aphrodite Banks, Jules (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Candyman) has a place among London’s celebrated drag artists. One night after a show, he steps out to get some cigarettes and is brutally attacked by a man (George MacKay, 1917), out with a gang of his friends. Although Jules is able to recover physically, he withdraws from the outside world, traumatized. Months later, he recognizes his attacker by chance in a gay sauna. Without make-up and wrapped only in a towel, Jules is able to approach the other man incognito and find out who he is. He begins an affair with the closeted Preston, with a plan to take his revenge.
Directors Sam H. Freeman & Ng Choon Ping | 2023 | UK | 99 minutes | in English
Cast: George MacKay (1917, Pride), Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Candyman, Misfits), Aaron Heffernan, John McCrea
“Femme is a really well-worked-through story with tense developments and reversals; it keeps you on the edge of your seat and the outstanding performances from Stewart-Jarrett and MacKay have delicacy, subtlety and depth.” – Peter Bradshaw, Guardian
“This queer thriller avoids predictability and masterfully explores masculinity, ethics, and identity.” – Maxwell Rabb, Chicago Reader
