The last two movies I watched both happened to be gay romances. I didn't know that when I added them to my queue, and it's weird they both showed up at the same time. Does that happen to you? I don't mean with gay movies or fascist moves or movies at all, but when you hear a subject, seemingly for the first time, you are bound to hear / notice it in quick succession six or seven more times.
I put these two movies in my queue because of the stars. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) is an early Daniel Day Lewis movie. He plays a white fascist youth in England in love with a Pakistani (male) college student. The romance is a decent part of the movie, but it's also hugely about family and the immigrant experience. Being a daughter in a British / Pakistani family is also an issue (the daughter we meet cannot inherit the business, and her father tries to marry her to her cousin), and that could be the subject of its own movie. Daniel Day Lewis loves the cousin, Omar, and the big question is WHY? I thought Omar was a dick to him (no pun intended) a good portion of the time. Anyway, this movie is solid, but not great. It features gangsters and gangs and conflict, and manages to hold it all together.
I really hated My Summer of Love (2004). It is an early Emily Blunt movie, and I really like Ms. Blunt. She could not make this movie work for me though. If you are a tortured teenage girl with overwrought emotions, this might work for you. If you like naked young girls frolicking while having intense discussions about their feelings, it would be a great movie for you. There are also religious characters that are pure caricatures. I was bored, maybe even annoyed at some times.
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