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A Moment In The Reeds (2017)
Season 1, Ep. 2
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Conrad and Joe are hard at work on the summer cottage as we discuss Mikko Mäkelä's feature debut, A Moment In The Reeds (2017) - our "lesser known" title in this pairing of Internalized Rural Homophobia texts.
Up for discussion: unfair comparisons to God's Own Country (2017), the film's abrupt ending, small scale intimacy, casting queer actors, and why Leevi's issues are shallow compared to Tariq.
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