Already being touted as an Italian Almodovar, director Pappi Corsicato’s exotic extravaganza is a quasi-surreal portrait of three Neapolitan women. The second of the stories has the film’s most overtly gay theme in which Carmela’s handsome homosexual son discovers his “mother” is more than he ever dreamed. A visual delight, shot through with a bizarre sense of humor and decor, director Corsicato is a talent to discover and to watch.

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The incomparable k.d. lang makes her film debut in Percy Adlon’s (Bagdad Cafe, Sugarbaby) exquisitely shot love story about a young, untamed Eskimo woman and her lesbian desire for a German émigeré working as a librarian at an Eskimo trading post in Northwest Alaska. Kabetsu, played by k.d. Lang, who sings the title song “Barefoot”, makes awkward advances to Roswitha (Rosel Zech, who played the title role in Fassbinder’s Veronika Voss). The ensuing relationship begins fraught with sexual tension, but grows into one of nurturing independence and love.

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