As LGBTQ+ cinema accelerates, so too does the social media-led desire for it be pervasively bawdier. A salacious sex scene? Congrats, that’s one point! Toe-sucking? Ten points! And so on.

It’s oddly refreshing then that A Night Like This , the debut feature from director Liam Calvert, bins off the incessant demand for more-is-more physical contact in favour of tender touches and opaque, compelling emotions.

In From The Side star Alexander Lincoln is Oliver, a wannabe musician, formerly rich club owner, and impish, sexually ambiguous Jack the Lad. In London at Christmas time, he brashly cons Lukas ( Jack Brett Anderson ), a gay German man, out of a pint at a pub.

It’s OK though, Lukas has bigger things to worry about: moments before, the struggling actor was hanging over a bridge, consum

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