La Belle Personne (2008)

There’s something quietly poignant yet indulgent about Christophe Honoré’s La Belle Personne, loosely translated as The Beautiful Person. Maybe its Léa Seydoux embodying the mysteriously beautiful Junie, maybe its the not-quite love-story about love. This 2008 French television film is loosely adapted from 17th Centuries french novel La Princesse de Cléves by Madamme de Lafayette, is updated into the modern campus life of french students.

Soldier’s Girl (2003)

DADT (Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell) was an official policy  concerning gays serving in the military. It prohibits harrasment and discrimination against closeted LGBT personel in the military, and barred the open ones from serving. It was established in 1993 and was in effect until it was repealed by President Obama in September 2011, but before it was repealed. Still, there were more than 13,000 personel had been discharged under the policy and there were a collection of tragedy that occurred within that timeline. Soldier’s Girl is a tale about one of them.

Behind The Candelabra (2013)

I remember reading about this Soderbergh’s biopic film project from one of N’s weekly rants. Behind The Candelabra, tells a story about a period of time of the pianist Liberace focusing on the duration where Liberace was involved with one of his lover, Scott Thorson. The film adapted from a memoir under the same name by Scott Thorson himself. Soderbergh did not manage to secure the finances to create this movie (apparently the refusal was because the film seemed too gay), until HBO films giving him the greenlight. The movie wouldn’t received a wide theatrical release, but it aired on HBO, and was eligible to compete for Palm d’Or at 2013 Cannes Film Festival.