Torino Gay Film Festival 2010: Robert Pattinson, Brazilian Shorts, TAXI ZUM KLO, MARY LOU

Other Torino screenings on Wednesday, April 21, include Paul Morrison’s Little Ashes, starring Twilight idol Robert Pattinson as Salvador Dali (!) and Javier Beltrán as Federico Garcia Lorca. Set in 1920s Spain, Dali is portrayed as a closet case in love with Lorca, who ended up killed by Franco sympathizers during the Spanish Civil War. Future filmmaker Luis Buñuel (Matthew McNulty) is depicted as an anti-gay grouch. Producer Carlo Dusi will be present at the screening. No word on Pattinson.
Eytan Fox’s Mary Lou will have its international premiere at Torino as well. Fox, the director of Walk on Water and The Bubble, will present to introduce the film, described as a coming-of-age musical in which a young man moves to Tel Aviv where he becomes famous as a drag queen named Mary Lou. Music by Svika Pick.
Frank Ripploh’s early gay classic Taxi zum Klo (Taxi to the Toilet), which is sort of like the sexually explicit gay male version of Looking Mr. Goodbar — minus the moralistic ending. Get ready for some kinky action if you decide to catch this one. Ripploh died of cancer in 2002.
In the "Focus: My God, religion and homosexuality" sidebar, Chaim Elbaum’s And Thou Shalt Love and Haim Tabakman’s Eyes Wide Open will be screened.
Also screening: Several Brazilian shorts, among them Ricky Mastro’s O Mais Forte / The Strongest, Tarcísio Puiati’s Garoto de Aluguel / Rent Boy, and Rafael Saar’s Depois de Tudo / After Everything.