JHB Fri 4th / 8.45pm ♥ Tue 8th / 9.15pm ♥ Fri 11th / 7pm
CT Sat 12th / 6.30pm ♥ Tue 15th / 6.15pm ♥ Sat 19th / 8.45pm

A fun, breezy film set in a gay ghetto in Madrid that borrows from Pedro Almodóvar in its use of colourful, beautiful characters that are also gritty and down-to-earth. The plot centres on a buff, ‘Apollo-esque’ estate agent who is killing old ladies so he can buy, renovate and sell their apartments to middle class gay men and turn Chuecatown into a sophisticated, entirely chic neighbourhood. Standing in his way are a loveable gay couple (bears), a very, very nasty mother-in-law and a police detective with her increasingly gay son in tow. If it all sounds nuts, it is, delightfully so, in that happily Iberian tradition of absurd comedy. The messages – ageism sucks, commercialism is killing gay diversity, love can still conquer all – are buried deep in the recipe of Flahn’s fabulous fruit trifle.