‘I wondered what would happen if I brought these two characters from very different worlds together and it erupted from there.’īoreham drew on classics such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Querelle and John Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy for inspiration for this unashamedly erotic movie, indulging in plenty of homoerotic cowboy iconography.
They started as sketches for two separate shorts, Boreham says. Read: Our Flag Means Death nails queer representation In wanders Casey (Josh Lavery, also marking his feature debut) as a country cowboy type fleeing a traumatic situation and feeling a little lost in the big city. Gabriel plays Tib, a city drifter who invites a parade of guys round to the warehouse-like space they’re crashing in at night, while gardening during the day to save up money to handle their mum’s visa issues.
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