Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 2008

Victor is a slick real estate agent in Madrid’s Chueca district with a dirty little secret: he’s murdering old ladies in order to buy their apartments and build a perfect gay neighborhood where the poor and portly need not apply. At first the police believe the deaths are suicides, but when Leo (Pepon Nieto) and Rey (Carlos Fuentes)—a pair of comic book-loving bears—inherit the apartment of the latest victim, the multi-phobic Inspector Mila (Rosa Maria Sardà) suspects something more sinister. To make matters even worse, Rey’s harpy of a mother moves in and schemes to push Leo out of the picture, his ex-boyfriend goes on the prowl, and even Mila’s son Luis begins questioning more than just the suspects. Just when it looks like all is lost for Leo, he finds an unlikely ally in Victor, and soon the neighborhood of Chueca is popping with comic mishaps, seductions, and an evergrowing pile of dead bodies. Spanish director Juan Flahn’s farce combines rapid-fire dialogue, crisp characterization, and high production values to make BOYSTOWN one of the best in its genre.

ASL Interpreting before the film.

co-presented by Entre Hermanos