Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.No, not the Disney animated classic.
Not the live-action remake. And no, not the Linda Hamilton-Ron Perlman soap opera that aired on CBS back in the late 80s (written by Game of Thrones scribe George R.R.
Martin, no less). We’re talking about the original, groundbreaking masterpiece by one of the great, queer directors of all time: Jean Cocteau.Cocteau had survived World War II and felt tremendous pressure to make a film that would uplift French spirits in the aftermath of it all.
As such, and because he didn’t consider himself a director so much as a visual artist, he enlisted the help of his friend René Clément,.