Gerontophilia (2014)Movies

Photo: Strand ReleasingGerontophiliaNights of CabiriaMrPeabody & ShermanMike's MurderBrother to BrotherBoy CultureHarold and MaudeLolitaArmond WhiteMovies Photo: Strand Releasing The subversive in-joke of Gerontophilia, about a young man’s attraction to way older men, is that a gay movie’s conventional sex object is attracted to an unconventional sex object. But director-writer Bruce LaBruce doesn’t intend audiences to laugh. He upends what’s comic about his rascally premise almost as Surrealist filmmakers did — juxtaposing the rational to the irrational. Gerontophilia is an adventure in understanding the “difference” of gayness as not different at all, just human. Lake (Pier-Gabriel Lajoie), a smiling young Canadian with a talent for pencil...