Words Thomas Stichbury
BY GEORGIAN: Levan, seated, and Gelly
Photography Markus Bidaux
If you’re making a gay movie and commit to including some sad-eyed shirt-sniffing in it, you better do it well because 2005 tear-jerker Brokeback Mountain still casts a huge plaidpatterned shadow over the LGBTQ cinematic landscape — we wish we knew how to quit you, Jack. So, huge props go to director Levan Akin for rising to the challenge in his new (cowboy-free) film And Then We Danced, in which a stand-out moment sees one of the main characters take a mighty whiff of his lover’s clothes. “I’ve sniffed some t-shirts in my life,” he teases.