Brisbane Queer Film Festival 2018 Opening Night: Freak Show
Like all great teen films, Freak Show understands that one’s teenage years are a time for experimentation with identity.
Like all great teen films, Freak Show understands that one’s teenage years are a time for experimentation with identity.
G.B.F. – “gay best friend” – is essentially a queer Mean Girls. Like that film, it exists in an exaggerated candy-coloured high school reality, our world emphatically underlined with a pink highlighter. It’s defined by rigid cliques spouting made-up slang, ruled over by picture-perfect teenage girls. The story centres on how a gay teenager’s inadvertent…