Copenhagen Sauna And the Sex Club where Johann (Magnus Juhal Anderson) works is called Adonis, and he tries his best to represent the brand. Tall, toned and tan, with a center-part MOP of wavy blonde hair, is a very picture of the scandi male beauty-and a gay person who never questioned his desireity or challenged by others. This is a privilege, when he falls for William (Nina Rusk), he should finally meet this, a trans man is still looking for his place in a masculine field that always accepts his body or his desires Does not A thoughtful, first feature of touch by Danish writer-director Mathius BroThe “sauna” detects strange, formal romance that occurs between these two unexpectedly matched lovers, and there is no great pain to suggest that they are partners of the soul.
A director of several quir-themed short films whose nonfiction titled “AMFI” won the Danish Academy Award in 2020, BRO adapted to “Sauna” from a novel of the same title by Mads Anand Lodahl with co-writer William Lipt. Did. Nevertheless it feels a personal project for Broe, whose own partner was in the production of the film, and who has spoken about his developed understanding of the queuing identity. After its premiere in the world cinema competition of Sunndans, the assurance of paying attention to LGBT-oriented distributors and festival programmers will resonate with many people under the umbrella, who had to face old prejudices either either in or in others or themselves. Is. On this occasion, the film outlines its broad social points with heavy hand, although there is also erotic flow and delicateness here.
It is a physical bridge, after all, which binds mainly to Johann and William to their first meeting: an app-able hookup that in the past almost scoopers discovered the latter trans identity with their gauch reaction. (It was mentioned in William’s profile, although Johann-Pototypically young, dumb and full of you-what is not much for reading.) The love story between them seems sick from the gate-go Compared to a bug: Once more than once we wonder that these two people look into each other with wild deviation ideas and interests, at least until the film’s clear but tenderly choreographed sex scenes Ko – Nicolai is shot by DP with great care and grace, attentive to the collapse of light on every fold of meat – reminds us of a magnetism among them that surprise the characters themselves.
Silence but no one is very bright, and leads to shy people to believe it, Johan is sensitive to a more superficial tendency of an urban gay scene that still slakes Sis, White and Macho. Is. A small town boy who ran away from Copenhagen to live openly, he managed to get a job as a patron in Adonis on the strength of his image, while the middle -aged middle -aged owner Michael (Claus legs) Has taken him to a logger. By night, his workplace provides a mastic and a frison of enthusiasm. Cleaning semen stains in the cold light of the day, however, is dreaming of Johann, and he remembers the human connection that goes beyond bars and dark.
A wise, conceptual literature student from a tolerant middle -class family, William offers him, as well as a more diverse, progressive queue in the world in the world. There, Johann himself has been uncontrolled to find an outsider – although the lines are not drawn as aggressively as they are when he carelessly brings William to Sauna, a brux by his transfobic employers. Inspires eviction. Johan’s mind is open, although his efforts to engage with the Trans community (and with practical and political obstacles, William has faces in his transition) clumsy and others: “I just want to party,” William in response to Johann’s response One of the friends of the hormone therapy is earnest but extreme questions. In its other lessons, “Sauna” acts as a reminder to queue up people and also queues the collaborator equally that “work” should not mean that others should not do it for you to do so for you Should be said.
As the splatter of Johann and William’s relationship, the script of the brow and the lip a little focusing, sends Johan to some repeated spirals of disastrous behavior-while a axis is equal to a sex work with a emotional nadir. Story. A pair of a pair, injury lead performance keeps the things reliable, although: the trans comedian Rusk is particularly affected as a man, who is almost tired as the kid-gauded acceptance of others because he is untouchable Is of misuse. “I want to be with you, but I am only finding out how to live with myself,” sheer for William Johan says in exaggeration, clarifying a circle that “sauna” is not right that ever Also square.
