Goran Stolevski’s third feature is a deft and unsentimental family drama about an unlikely tribe of misfits trying to make a place for themselves
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Each of Goran Stolevski’s films thus far has marked a departure from the last: the bewitching horrors of his debut You Won’t Be Alone; the acidic heartburn of his queer romance Of An Age; and now Housekeeping for Beginners, an amorphous family drama that marks the North Macedonian-born, Australian-raised director’s return to his home country.
Set in contemporary Skopje, Stolevski’s third feature follows a menagerie of queer misfits living, loving, and fighting in a household which threatens to burst at the seams. His band of outcasts are bound together by survival – beneath their raucous capers, there’s the constant spectre of danger, peering through the curtains.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/09/housekeeping-for-beginners-review-a-queer-familys-fight-to-stay-together
Author : Michael Sun
Publish date : 2024-05-08 15:00:19
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