A Moment in the Reeds (dir. Mikko Mäkelä) is a 2017 romantic drama about a gay poet returning to his hometown to help his father fix up their family summer home and also fall madly in love with a Syrian architect.

Join Hal, Z, and guest host Rae as they discuss European cinema, language barriers, and the inherit queerness of French Romantic poetry.

You find Rae's published work here

https://milkcandyreview.home.blog/2020/05/28/galatea-by-r-a-matteson/

and here

https://themolotovcocktail.com/about/archive-vols-1-3/vol-8/flash-hero/story-of-a-witch/

We'd like to thank EnoffMusic for our theme song.

TW: this film contains homophobia, xenophobia, the death of a parent, full frontal male nudity, and sexual themes.