Set in the 1970s, Uncle Frank is a comedy-drama road movie about a closeted gay man who is forced to confront his past. The two scenes on the beach - one of being propped up by a paternal figure on the salty afternoon waters, and the other sealing the indigo night with a tense kiss - have such visual and emotional potency, they refuse traditional labels of representation by being so specific in intention and articulation. Each phase, leavened by his mother’s addiction and the overt pressures of the racist, masculine system, is propped by a visual intimacy and immediacy the frames stay with you. Winner of 3 Academy Awards including Best Picture, director Barry Jenkins crafts with his characteristic deft, tender framing the coming-of-age of Chiron in Miami at the height of the crack epidemic - from a child to an adolescent to an adult. Here is a list of films and shows that you can find on Amazon Prime Video. This is a great time to delve into the queer catalogue of films and shows that platform queer lives as they are lived. The month of June is Pride Month, which celebrates the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City that put front-and-center the desire to be and love whomever, however.
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