Straight

By: Scott Cranin
In-House Review - Sep 06 2012

Straight is the story of a messy love triangle between two men and a woman. Nazim (Eralp Uzun) is a hot young Turkish guy involved in petty crime. He goes out each night with his buddies, cruising for girls and dealing in a seedy city square populated with hookers. None of his buddies suspect that on many of those nights he ends up in the arms of men. Since he met David (Florian Sonnefeld) on the street, his hetero façade is rapidly crumbling. His friends seem to pick up on the new vibe and wonder what's up. David is from a bourgeois Jewish family and slumming it. He hangs out on the street pretending to look for , but what he really wants is Nazim. Their first hookup is alternately hot, tender and filled with guilt. Nevertheless, their affair develops in secret against all odds. Further entangling things is David's Polish-German girlfriend (Beba Ebner), who is revolting against her strict Catholic upbringing by going out with this punkish Jewish boyfriend. But she doesn't have a clue about who he truly is.

By: pscollector

By: Amos Lassen

"Straight"

Germany Gives Us a New Film

Amos Lassen

Breaking Glass Films brings us a new gritty German drama about two bisexual men who form two parts of a love triangle which becomes messy. Nazim (Eralp Uzun) is Turkish, hot and involved in crime. He spends his nights with his friends dealing and looking for sex with women at the city square in the Neukoelln section of Berlin. The square is a popular meeting place of prostitutes and low-lifers. No one has any idea that Nazim has no real interest in women and usually ends up in the arms of a man at nights' ends. He met David (Florian Sonnefeld) on the street and his macho look and façade began to fall apart. His friends suspect something and begin to wonder what is going on especially because David is from a middle-class Jewish family yet prefers to visit the slums. David pretends to try to score but what he really wants is Nazim. When the two get together for a night of sex, it is quite hot on one hand and tender on the other and there are feelings of guilt. The two men continue to see each other regardless of this and they keep their relationship a secret.
Things get complicated when David brings his girlfriend, Polish-German and Catholic into the relationship. It seems she is revolting against her strict religious upbringing by seeing a Jewish guy, one who is quite pinkish on top of everything else.
There is a lot of sexual energy here and this is the kind of film that is not soon forgotten.