Suffering from a profusion of clichés generally associated with documentaries about straight athletes, Seth Greenleaf’s film about gay flag football players ironically demonstrates just how far we’ve come in terms of equality. A profile of several players and a chronicle of the lead up to the 2012 “Gay Bowl” in Phoenix, Arizona, F(l)ag Football reveals that gay athletes can be just as dull as straight ones when they become the subject of documentaries.
Not that there aren’t significant differences, as illustrated by the footage of a drag show put on by a team in the gay league to raise money....
Not that there aren’t significant differences, as illustrated by the footage of a drag show put on by a team in the gay league to raise money....
- 6/19/2017
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Director Seth Greenleaf’s “F(l)ag Football” documents the training sessions of a motley group of gay football players as they prepare to play in the National Gay Flag Football Championship, a competition started by sports journalist Cyd Zeigler in 2002. These guys are big on lame bromides in the first scenes of the film (“Football is one of those games that teaches you life lessons”), but they eventually open up for the camera and have much more interesting and complicated things to say about themselves. Just six NFL football players have come out of the closet as gay, and this was.
- 6/15/2017
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
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