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16 May 2012 #427

While there are no LGBT film releases we can watch to celebrate Obama's announcement on marriage equality this weekend, all is not lost!

Our pick of the week is The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, a gentle comedy that celebrates and empathises with the joys and plights of growing old and destitute. A group of pensioners headed by Tom Wilkinson playing a retired gay judge will live out their retirement in India, enduring fish-out-of-water comic situations that arise.

Love in the Buff is a hip Hong Kong romantic comedy that's a perfect stylistic meeting ground of Frasier, Seinfeld, and Sex and the City. In other words, it's about nothing in particular, aside from the banter and bawdy tales that everyone tells each other in order to get into their pants.

Forget about Tony Jaa and his Ong Bak trilogy! Action fans have a new reason to rejoice with The Raid: Redemption, where a few good cops take down an apartment block of crime in one day. This is a film with literally non-stop brawling, with moves that look so painful and lethal, you'd be cheered on every time the film's casualty counter ticks!

If you're addicted to comedies about parenthood, you could try out What to Expect When You’re Expecting. Here, five couples go through the whole course of pregnancy, experiencing its messiness and joys. Tshey range from happily married couples to cohabitating couples to a couple who get together after the pregnancy, to even a couple planning to adopt an African child. Sadly, no gay or lesbian couples.

Till next week,

Vernon Chan

PICK OF THE WEEK
 

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Exporting your ageing, savings-poor population to another country makes perfect sense if it's a comedy about old age. The global audience deserves another dose of British comedy film, a singular genre which consists of making light of the worst possible situation (economic recessions, closing factories and tin mines...) and seeing these characters cope with warmth and laughter. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is a film so well done that even when it starts of with a cast of very hard luck and unlikeable characters, you will end up empathising with their humanity and laughing along with their little misadventures and journeys of discovery in an exotic land.

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