How Firebird’s Peeter Rebane and Tom Prior turned a Cold War-era thriller into a gay romance
Queer film has seen its share of dark tragedies and repressed character studies. Firebird, the new film from Estonian writer-director Peeter Rebane and British writer-star Tom Prior, throws the conventions of a Cold War-era thriller into the mix, and foregrounds the kind of soaring, aching romance that gay audiences…