I Love You, Beksman
New York Asian Film Festival 2023
July 14 - 30, 2023
When fashionably androgynous salon worker Dalia falls for a gorgeous beauty pageant contestant the truth finally comes out: He’s a straight guy with a queer eye! This brilliant riff on Romeo and Juliet wears campy corniness on its self-aware pop-art sleeve.
Fashionably androgynous Dali is the premier glamour guru in his family’s super-gay salon. Naturally everyone assumes he’s on the same team, but when a clumsy mishap with gorgeous beauty pageant contestant Angel leads him to save her day, the truth finally comes out: He’s a straight guy with a queer eye! As Dali falls head over heels in love with Angel he must overcome a multitude of obstacles on the path to true romance. This brilliant conceit riffs buoyantly on Romeo and Juliet for a modern day fairy tale in flamboyant attire. Wearing campy corniness on its self-aware pop-art sleeve, no stone is left unturned: Identity, machismo, feminism, femininity, stigma, social conditioning, discrimination, inclusion, prejudice, acceptance, sexuality, and gender are all taken to task with gay abandon. Christian Bables (Big Night!, NYAFF 2022) and the entire cast bring this whole affair home with pitch-perfect fabulousness.
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