2024 Entry #006 01-04-24 “Lolo” is a 14 minute 2019 German short film which was written and directed by both Leandro Goddinho & Paulo Menezes who went on to create other queer shorts with “It Is Not the Brazilian Homosexuals Who Are Perverse, But the Situation in Which They Live” & “Du Bist So Wunderbar”. The story focuses on Lolo (Zev Starrett), who is an openly gay 11-year-old boy trying to convince Max (Valentin von Schönburg), his first love, to go public with their relationship at the school party, while also spending time with his close friends, Toby (Sam Atlas) and Elena (Rhea C. Tober).
So, this was mostly horrible. The entire cast is made up of children and their performances are not good but with this script it’s hard to blame them for any of this. I do like the poster and the cinematography isn’t horrendous, and I did also like one of the settings – but I wish all of these elements were part of a better film, because this is just scraping the bottom of the barrel.
I purchased this short from Amazon Prime a couple of years ago as part of a gay short film collection titled “The Male Gaze: Hide and Seek”. I hope the other entries are better than this one.
Skip it.