Four films are on the docket at the Tampa International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival tonight, including Dirty Girl (with Juno Temple, Mary Steenburgen and William H. Macy), the replacement for the previously scheduled The Perfect Family. CL pre-screened two of the four. Here are our reviews. Also, check out the other TIGLFF movies we've reviewed to date.
How Are You
In what is perhaps the most perfect marriage of venue and film in TIGLFF 2011, this fascinating documentary about the artistic (and romantic) collaboration of Danish-Norwegian artists Ingar Dragset and Michael Elmgreen is being shown at the Tampa Museum of Art, whose white-box environs have parallels in the performance installations the artists create, and then subvert. For instance, the showhouse they built for the Venice Biennale, complete with a For Sale sign and Realtor tours, looks like the perfect bourgeois box — until visitors encounter such unsettling details as a body floating in the swimming pool and servants cast in bronze.
This article appears in Oct 6-12, 2011.