Night Stage review: Erotic gay thriller from Brazil in which straight men steal the show

Gabriel Faryas and Henrique Barreira in Night Stage (Image: Vitrine Films/M-Appeal)

“I hate when gay men are depicted in films as awful people,” I said, triggered, upon leaving the closing night screening of Night Stage at this year’s BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival. “You mean like real life?” my (gay and male) companion countered, half-joking, electrified by what he’d just seen on-screen.

For sure, there is something thrillingly erotic about an erotic thriller in which the central characters’ overwhelming fixation with gay sex – in this case, dangerous sex in public – overrides all consideration for others, and indeed common sense itself. And in an era where our community so often responds to unprecedented queerphobia by, somewhat understandably, pushing the great, good and seemingly perfect forward in art and in life,

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