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Juan Barquin

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neurotic, queer, latin american writer and programmer. they/them. co-creator & filmmaker for @flamingclassics. chair of @FLfilmcritics
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Kokuho review – a kabuki star is born

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By Juan Barquin Verified
| Little White Lies Verified
Kokuho review – a kabuki star is born Lee Sang-il's historical drama about the making of a kabuki legend is nothing short of intoxicating. 4 Anticipation. The all-time highest-grossing Japanese live-action film… and it’s about kabuki! 4 Enjoyment. Any quibbles fall by the wayside with how intoxicatingly classical it is. 4 In Retrospect. A kabuki star is born in Ryo Yoshizawa, a face we can’t stop thinking about.
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‘Tropical Park’ Paints a Real Portrait of Queer Miami

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By Juan Barquin Verified
| Autostraddle Verified
Miami’s filmmaking scene has seen a rise in microbudget features over the past decade, offering up a different perspective of South Florida than the typical partiers and tech bros would try to sell you. One of the most recent and exciting of the crop is Hansel Porras Garcia’s experiment Tropical Park: an intimate tale told entirely from the inside of a car during a driving lesson.
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Mean Girl Cinema Is So Back With ‘Forbidden Fruits’

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By Juan Barquin Verified
| Autostraddle Verified
From the very moment it kicks off, Forbidden Fruits feels like a throwback to a bygone era of cunty girl cinema. Meredith Alloway’s debut feature — adapted from Lily Houghton’s play Of the woman came the beginning of sin and through her we all die and produced by none other than Diablo Cody — has a deceptively simple premise: A young woman joins a stunning group of mall retail workers and tries to navigate their performative sisterhood.
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