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The Man with the Answers movie review: two gay men hit it off in quietly touching LGBT road movie


Gradually, the two men get to know each other, initially getting on each other’s nerves. The emotionally available Mathias frequently asks Victoras questions he doesn’t really want to answer, but he’s also reckless – stealing from a gas station, for example, which Victoras takes offence at.

“Gravity will always pull you down to the ground,” Matthias says, though he clearly wants to stay afloat on life’s breezes forever.

Kammitsis toys, with reasonable success, with the age-old idea that opposites attract, even if it’s inevitable that sparks will fly between these two men. There’s a tastefully shot and restrained love scene, shortly before they arrive at their destination, but it’s heartening to see an LGBT movie that isn’t riddled with anxiety about sexual identity.

With little in the way of plot or dramatics, that may be more of an issue for some. Running at a brisk 80 minutes, the film doesn’t exactly explode onto the screen and despite some pleasant European countryside – shot in Italy, Cyprus and Greece, among other places – there isn’t a whole lot to feast on visually.

Anton Weil (left) and Vasilis Magouliotis in a still from The Man with the Answers.

Anton Weil (left) and Vasilis Magouliotis in a still from The Man with the Answers.

Still, Kammitsis crafts a believable narrative with two characters you’ll want to follow to the end of the road. Victoras, with his fishlike tattoo on his arm, is an interesting leading character: more lost than troubled, and in need of resolution in his life. Magouliotis plays it to a tee, while his opposite number is equally spot on as the man who may be the answer after all.

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