Love and Human Remains
In Edmonton, Canada, a failed actor lives with a bookish woman, whom he dated before coming out as a homosexual. While they and their friends each aim to find love and sexual gratification, a serial k…
Love and Human Remains
In Edmonton, Canada, a failed actor lives with a bookish woman, whom he dated before coming out as a homosexual. While they and their friends each aim to find love and sexual gratification, a serial killer stalks the city's women. Set in a dreary urban landscape of Edmonton, LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS is a dark comedy about a group of twentysomethings looking for love and meaning in the '90s. The film focuses on roommates David, a gay waiter who has has given up on his acting career, and Candy, a book reviewer who is also David's ex-lover. David and Candy's lives are entangled with those of David's friends (a busboy, a psychic dominatrix, and a misogynistic civil-servant) and Candy's dates (a male bartender and a lesbian schoolteacher). Meanwhile, a serial killer menaces the concrete and asphalt neighbourhood in which David and Candy live. —Michael Stewart The gay waiter and former TV actor David shares an apartment with his former girlfriend, the book reviewer Candy, and both are looking for true love. David's friends are the womanizer public servant Bernie and the dominatrix Benita that satisfies the fantasies of her masochist clients. David is worshiped by the busboy Kane and sometimes he hangs around with the gay Sal in the nightclub. Candy is dating the bartender Robert and the lesbian schoolteacher Jerri that has unrequited love for her. Meanwhile, a serial-killer is killing lonely women and keeping their earrings as souvenir. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Love and Human Remains
Comedy,Drama
Film Details
In Edmonton, Canada, a failed actor lives with a bookish woman, whom he dated before coming out as a homosexual. While they and their friends each aim to find love and sexual gratification, a serial killer stalks the city's women. Set in a dreary urban landscape of Edmonton, LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS is a dark comedy about a group of twentysomethings looking for love and meaning in the '90s.
The film focuses on roommates David, a gay waiter who has has given up on his acting career, and Candy, a book reviewer who is also David's ex-lover. David and Candy's lives are entangled with those of David's friends (a busboy, a psychic dominatrix, and a misogynistic civil-servant) and Candy's dates (a male bartender and a lesbian schoolteacher). Meanwhile, a serial killer menaces the concrete and asphalt neighbourhood in which David and Candy live.
—Michael Stewart The gay waiter and former TV actor David shares an apartment with his former girlfriend, the book reviewer Candy, and both are looking for true love. David's friends are the womanizer public servant Bernie and the dominatrix Benita that satisfies the fantasies of her masochist clients. David is worshiped by the busboy Kane and sometimes he hangs around with the gay Sal in the nightclub.
Candy is dating the bartender Robert and the lesbian schoolteacher Jerri that has unrequited love for her. Meanwhile, a serial-killer is killing lonely women and keeping their earrings as souvenir. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.