A Queer Review of the Austin Film Festival (2023)
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.

Downtrodden office worker Samuel loses his job and, in a freak accident, his overbearing wife Tanita on the same day. To help him recover, his precocious gay best friend, Jessie, accompanies him on a trip to London. Before long, the hapless duo finds themselves in serious trouble with the Punjabi Mafia, Interpol, and inappropriate couplings.
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.
Over the last several years, I have had the privilege of being one of the critics having the opportunity to watch and review several films from writer/director/producer Marcellus Cox, whose efforts are never anything less but grounded, relevant, and steeped in unflinching glimpses illustrating the gripping, inspired, and ever-vacillating realms that make up the human condition.
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As Andrew’s life begins to change, his passion for drumming soon becomes a spiraling obsession in the pursuit of perfection. Through the use of disturbing and abusive training methods, Fletcher puts Andrew through emotional and physical agony.