Venus as a Boy

Characters ring false. My body was literally cringing listening to the dialogue. Beware of someone who both writes and directs and stars in their own movie. This proves why you shouldn't do this.

This film hits on visual, relational, and cultural levels.

Each character felt real, while also representing how disjointed identities and values might attract and repel each other within our current counter/cultural landscape. Themes of expression, success, anti-Blackness. Femininity, spirituality, and playfulness/responsibility coalesce in this film that insists on setting its own course.

The film feels equal parts sweet and tense, whimsical and serious, all while remaining realistic, fresh, and genuine.

I wish I could watch it for the first time over and over!

P. S. We live for trace lysette. Yes hunny.

The movie is an absolute diamond and a very succesfull depection of reality and the harsh world we live in ....it shows how lucky we are if somebody comes into our life to show us how to stand on our own two feet and love ourselves first and foremost I absolutely recomment it.

Wonderful and engaging cast. The story was very contemporary, and tackled highly personal and important topics of depictions of black men, in a manner that goes beyond how majority society pigeon holes them.

This was a beautiful film. Every frame is like a poem to Los Angeles and the talented, struggling bohemians that make it a wild and magical place.

The acting is pitch perfect and the characters are creatures you fall in love with.