V –0 08 - Rehoboth Beach Film Society
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feaTure films<br />
26<br />
A Filipina “lady-boy” blessed with extraordinary beauty<br />
and grace, Raquela Rios makes her living by walking the<br />
streets and serving a clientele with exotic tastes. Alas, this<br />
self-proclaimed queen dreams of far bigger and better<br />
things, so when she’s recruited by a fellow transsexual<br />
to join the lucrative world of Internet porn, Raquela puts<br />
on a nurse’s uniform and dives in headfirst. Her online<br />
popularity skyrockets, and soon she’s off living a life of odd<br />
adventures — traveling to Iceland, working in a fish factory<br />
and, finally, fulfilling a lifelong dream to see Paris. And once<br />
the site’s New York-based owner takes a shine to her and<br />
visits her in the City of Light, Raquela may even find true<br />
love. Part fact and part fairytale, Olaf de Fleur Johannesson’s<br />
dazzling docudrama blends gritty vérité and fictional flights<br />
of fancy to chronicle this truly transtastic character’s life.<br />
Only in Canada can you mix hockey, homosexuality, and family<br />
values. Breakfast with Scot is a light-hearted and touching<br />
comedy starring TV hunk Thomas Cavanagh (“Ed,” “Scrubs”)<br />
as Eric, an ex-hockey player turned sportscaster with<br />
memberships in three gyms. Eric is one of those gay guys who<br />
would describe himself as “straight-acting” in a personal ad<br />
— if he weren’t too busy acting straight to place the ad. Though<br />
not “out” at work, Eric is living the perfect gay life at home with<br />
his lawyer boyfriend Sam (the handsome Ben Shenkman of<br />
Angels in America and “Law & Order”). But their closet paradise<br />
is threatened when a long-lost friend dies and Eric and Sam<br />
are told they have custody of her 11-year-old son. Eric fears<br />
the arrival of a rude and messy brute who, before they know it,<br />
the amazIng<br />
truth about<br />
Queen raQuela<br />
Teddy Award for Best GLBT <strong>Film</strong> at the Berlin <strong>Film</strong> Festival<br />
Best International Feature and The Vangaurd Award at Newfest, the<br />
New York GLBT <strong>Film</strong> Festival<br />
WED NOV 5 5:55 PM-7:20 PM<br />
FRI NOV 7 4:30 PM-6:00 PM<br />
Actors trade lines with sex-industry professionals, key<br />
moments are recreated with a certain dreamy liberty,<br />
and you’re never sure whether you’re watching reality or<br />
fantasy. What’s never in doubt is the sense of empowerment<br />
that Raquela — playing herself, natch — brings to every<br />
encounter and interaction in which she engages. Winner<br />
of this year’s prestigious Teddy Award at the Berlin <strong>Film</strong><br />
Festival, Johannesson’s tribute to Rios truly earns the titular<br />
adjective; it’s amazing from start to finish. All hail the Queen!<br />
[Dir. Olaf de Fleur Johannesson, 20<strong>08</strong>, iceland, video, 80 mins.<br />
in English, icelandic, Visayan and Thai with English subtitles]<br />
Website: www.queenraquelathemovie.com<br />
breakfast wIth scot<br />
THuRS NOV 6 6:15 PM-7:55 PM<br />
SPONSORED BY: CuRTISS BARROWS / MERRILL LYNCH<br />
FRI NOV 7 6:15 PM-7:55 PM<br />
SPONSORED BY: CAMP REHOBOTH<br />
SuN NOV 11 12:50 PM-2:30 PM<br />
will be swiping beers from their refrigerator and deflowering<br />
girls on their 500-thread-count sheets. What they get instead is<br />
Scot (the charming Noah Bernett), an “artistic” waif who sings<br />
Christmas carols out of season, spells his name with one ‘t’ and<br />
likes to give everything, including his pee-wee hockey uniform,<br />
“a little more sparkle.” Can these uptight gay dads learn to love<br />
their sissy son? Or will Eric’s reluctance to “be gay” — or even<br />
be seen in public with Scot— stand in the way?<br />
[Dir. Laurie Lynd, 20<strong>08</strong>, canada, video, 95 mins.]<br />
Website: http://www.caprifilms.com/breakfastwithscot/index.html