It sounds like the title of a porn parody, but the U.S. indie flick Who’s Afraid of Vagina Wolf? turns out to be a gentle romantic comedy, a film-within-a-film about an aspiring director who writes her low-budget feature debut as a ploy to cast the hot girl she just met.
Upsetting expectations has become the stock in trade of the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, which opens its 25th edition with a gala screening of Magnificent Presence (7 p.m. Thursday, Vancouver Playhouse), Turkish-born Italian director Ferzan Ozpetek’s supernatural comedy. Italian star Elio Germano plays a lonely aspiring actor in Rome who gets some unexpected company when he rents an upscale apartment at a bargain price, and finds out the place is inhabited by a family of ghosts.
From an actor playing an actor, we go to a director playing a director, as American Anna Margarita Albelo directs herself as a character named Anna in the amusingly titled Who’s Afraid of Vagina Wolf? (7 p.m. Aug. 24, Rio).
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