Gypsy Boys REVIEWS
"A delight to behold."-- San Francisco Int'l Lesbian & gay Film Festival
"A very cool film... our thumb is up!"-- XY Magazine
"Armistead Maupin's 'Tales of the City'
for 2000. All of the actors put in excellent performances."
-- Greg Bueno, Austin360.com
"Celebrates the joie de vivre of urban
gay life... always diverting and charming."
-- Daily Variety
"The first truly exciting gay date film
of the millennium."
--
QTV San Francisco
"An Altman-esque journey through the
gay demimonde of San Francisco, 'Gypsy Boys' weaves through its
multiple storylines with a deftness and humor that kees the film
moving along at an engrossing clip."
-- Rahn Fudge, QTV San Francisco
(Director Brian Shepp) "scores by simultaneously
managing to startle us with the film's honesty and insight while
making us laugh out loud at foibles that may all too often be
our own."
-- Scott
Dinger, Artistic Dirtector, AGLIFF
"...an amazing soundtrack of non-stop,
high energy tracks."
--
Dino Balzano, Frontiers Magazine
"Director Brian Shepp has crafted a thoughtful
and provoking film about men who love men and the men who love
them. Gloriously unsettling in its realism, "Gypsy Boys"
will have you wincing as you watch some of your most embarrassing
moments portrayed on screen. With a fun and funky fairy-tale
quality, "Gypsy Boys" shares what's going on inside
its characters' minds as effortlessly as it shows what's going
on outside. Charming in ways much like "Queer as Folk"
and "Tales of the City," "Gypsy Boys" stakes
a claim to its own territory, one ripe with drama, trauma, and
triumph."
-- Kevin
Martin, Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
"Sort of Groove-goes-to-the-Stud,
Brian Shepp's local feature is a breezy look at the lives of
some young, gorgeous, variably slutty, and invariably high lads
orbiting around the Castro and its clubland satellites. The large
ensemble of cuties is divided into two camps: those Looking for
Love and those Looking for Lube. Naturally, the former lot are
hopelessly stuck on flighty representatives of the later category.
There's some critical insight directed toward hedonism's downsides,
but "Gypsy Boys" is good fun nicely handled: a colorful,
fast-paced, affectionate, often funny insider's look at a whole
sceneful of Peter Pans in full flight."
-- Dennis Harvey, San Francisco Bay Guardian,
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