Follow along for more coverage or read her review of Rains Over Babel below. The mainstream work that will fill your heart and give you hope is rarely the same as what will turn you on or have you ready to burn shit down.
Thankfully, there are films made outside of the U. Thankfully, there are films like Rains Over Babel. The costuming and production design creates a world unto its own, a combination of sci-fi, fantasy, and hip realism. Monet Johan Zapata , recently dead, is trying to strike a deal to return to his body.
And Jacob William Hurtado , the son of a pastor, is torn between his biological family and his new drag family. Oh and did I mention Uma has a talking lizard? Throughout all of these tales, there are fight sequences and dance numbers and moments of delicious melodrama. This is the kind of queer media I wish kids could watch. Sure, someone ODs and there are various forms of debauchery on display.
Because Rains Over Babel is Colombian and artful in its form and setting, I can imagine it living primarily in an arthouse market. But this is a live-action cartoon! I hope it finds the wide audience it deserves. This has been a terrible week to be trans in the U. And can I remind you this film has a talking lizard?? Rains Over Babel is streaming on the Sundance online platform today and tomorrow. Drew is a Brooklyn-based writer, filmmaker, and theatremaker. She is a Senior Editor at Autostraddle with a focus in film and television, sex and dating, and politics.
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