"For me, writing a poem is like having a secret. It's like making love and delaying orgasm as long as possible. I find it hard now. My poetry is the result of the invention of an identity. Once identity is assumed, nothing stimulates the imagination less than being what you are. Furthermore, one's maturity is a silly time in life when the only intimacy is headaches, and paradoxically life starts becoming alarmingly short because you spend the whole day worrying about your fear of death."--Jaime Gil de Biedma (1929-1990).
Sigfried Monleón's The Consul of Sodom (2009) is a lavishly-produced biopic draped with literary weight. You need to love language--particularly poetry--to fully appreciate Sodom's Venusian excess and baroque melancholy. Sumptuously lensed by José David Montero, Sodom joins the ranks of such films as Kavafis (1996) and Before Night Falls (2000) in its effort to retroactively invest a queer historicity into the lives...
Sigfried Monleón's The Consul of Sodom (2009) is a lavishly-produced biopic draped with literary weight. You need to love language--particularly poetry--to fully appreciate Sodom's Venusian excess and baroque melancholy. Sumptuously lensed by José David Montero, Sodom joins the ranks of such films as Kavafis (1996) and Before Night Falls (2000) in its effort to retroactively invest a queer historicity into the lives...
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