04/04/2012 - Chaos, freedom, love and betrayals in the film directed by Mariano Lamberti, out in cinemas on April 6 with con Iris Film

Eight characters, four men and four women, all gay (or nearly). A motley crew of friends, each one caught up with their own love and sex stories , their own contradictions and above all in every-day life. With no dramas or pietisms. In fact if there is one merit to Mariano Lamberti’s Good As You [+see also:
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film profile], in 50 cinemas from April 6 with Iris Film, it is exactly that of overturning the perspective on gay people in films: not homosexuals in a heterosexual context, where they are often depicted in a battle against marginalisation, their sexuality refused, a family which does not accept them (above all, Ozpetek’s Loose Cannons [+see also:
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Based on the homonymous play by Roberto Biondi, Good As You, which takes its name from the slogan of the gay movement of the '60s, stars Enrico Silvestrin (Remember Me, My Love [+see also:
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Clichéd or not, Good As You gives us happiness, self-irony, even provocation. And it doesn’t lack an important message: that given to the boy who in the final sequences is having fun crawling around and playing with a blonde wig, surrounded by the love of his "rainbow family", unsure of the future but happy to be living in that wonderful chaos, full of freedom.

(Translated from Italian)