Episode 25 - Rent (2005)

Merry Christmas listeners, and why not listen to some festive film chat from Queer Girl Film Club! There might be a little disagreement as to whether Rent (2005) is a Christmas film or not, but there’s certainly some snow and singing to be had, and the QGFC gang are keeping up our Christmas traditions, like bringing up those Netflix Vanessa Hudgens films again.

We spend a bit less than 525,600 minutes talking about this big screen adaptation of one of the most successful musicals, especially the film’s queer girls, chaotic bisexual and biphobia lightning rod Maureen, and her on-again off-again power suit lesbian lawyer girlfriend Joanne. We also have some time for the rest of the cast from the good (Collins and Angel, who might be a queer girl or a genderqueer icon, we don’t want to label them) to the baaaaaaaad (poor old Mark and Roger are in for a battering).

We also cover how this film is too earnest to be camp, why the tango is the best song in any musical, and G tries to derail as much as possible to avoid talking about the actual film cos she’s not the biggest fan.

Here’s a link to Lindsay Ellis’s Rent video which gets a mention - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0qfFbtIj5w