We had never thought to do this beforehand. When we were travelling in Russia on the Trans Siberian railway, visiting places like Yekaterinburg and Irkutsk where there are no gay hangouts, our friends told us that we needed a Grindr profile to get the local ‘word' on what's happening.
However, when travelling to a country outside this pink bubble, we found that Grindr literally “became” the gay scene, and was more an important way of finding out about any underground gay parties happening as well as connecting with LGBTQ locals.
Since we began travelling in our more (ahem!) junior years, smartphones didn't even exist…Cue our elder Millennial lecture about the good old days…īack then, the Internet was limited to email, ICQ and Windows Live Messenger. 102 minutes.Which are your favourite gay apps for travelling boys? Contains strong language, nudity, sensuality, drug use and smoking. But isn’t that why a lot of us go to the movies - or, in this case, Amazon Prime Video - in the first place? Unrated. Be patient: Good things will come to all who don’t give up on this meringue-like confection, if they can stand how often Lisa and Luka call each other “bébé.” How close does everything in the film track with Azuelos’s life? Who cares? It barely feels like anyone’s real life, to be honest.
Once there - and with her grown kids back in France, like Azuelos’s - the 50-year-old “Lisa” of the movie embarks on a hot romance with a 29-year-old (!) she has met via a dating app (Colin Woodell), at the insistence of her lonely gay BFF Luka (Djanis Bouzyani), who could use a little of Lisa’s luck in love himself. It begins with Marceau (also called Lisa here) moving to La La Land after the death of her mother, as Azuelos did. Azuelos’s math might be a little off, but the film, which reunites her with her cinematic muse and alter ego Sophie Marceau (star of the director’s “LOL” and other collaborations), closely follows the contours of Azuelos’s own biography. Does Lisa Azuelos love America? I’m not sure, but based on the evidence of the movie “ I Love America” - which the French filmmaker has described as 99 percent “my life” - she sure does seem to have a soft spot for American movies, especially the conventions of romantic comedies and their Hollywood happy endings.