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‘Queens of Drama’ Director Alexis Langlois Brings New Pop to Queer Stories
Cannes Critics Week gem “Queens of Drama” offers valentine to pop divas and has-beens.
Premiering out of Critics’ Week in Cannes, Alexis Langlois ’ debut feature “ Queens of Drama ” is a musical blast of queer culture euphoria, telling a decades-spanning, impossible love story between a pair of pop idols who begin as fans and then become lovers, who climb the charts and permeate the culture as enemies, and who end up forgotten, as time moves forward and a new generation of teenage fans claim new idols for themselves. Like many, Langlois discovered cinema through the TV set, launching from series like “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” towards older cinematic gems, and used pop music towards similarly enriching ends. That thread connects Langlois with contemporaries like “The People’s Joker” director Vera Drew and “I Saw The TV Glow” filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun, all them repurposing formative media towards more personal ends.
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