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South African Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Title: Goldfish Memory
Director: Liz Gill
Specs: Ireland / UK 2003 35mm 85min
A local bar and an irascible taxi-driver are the central point around which vibrant characters dance with their sexuality in this fast-paced, sexy comedy that explores the deepest of desires: the quest for the perfect relationship.
Tom is a sleazy English professor who, when wooing his young students, uses the 3-second memory span of a goldfish as a metaphor for love. When he is caught by girlfriend Clara kissing his latest conquest, Isolde, Clara’s rebound affair with newscaster Angie sparks a chain reaction of cleverly inter-woven gay and straight relationships – successful and unsuccessful - that eventually comes full circle.
The result is a sexy, sassy insight into Dublin city life where lonely hearts are redeemed, and rose-tinted glasses are shattered, until the next pair is donned.
Courtesy of Liz Gill, who is a guest of the Festival
Out In Africa
Jhb Thu 11 / 8pm Sun 14 / 4pm Tue 16 / 8pm
CT Thu 18 / 8pm Sun 21 / 6pm Fri 26 / 8.15pm
Dbn Thu 1 / 8pm
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