Your Eyes on Me

By: Create

By: Amos Lassen

"YOUR EYES ON ME"
Love and Drag
Amos Lassen
Sergei Alexander's "Your Eyes on Me" is the story of a romantic encounter that changes the life of a drag artist forever. Gloria is an accomplished drag queen whose life changes when she meets Kandi, a drag virgin when she auditions for her next show. A bond develops between the two until their relationship takes an unexpected turn.
We first see Gloria (Paul Stone) performing, "Your Eyes On Me" and then at her dressing table while her/his best friend Toni (Niamh Sullivan) shares a dream she had about "Julia". Before we can learn more, it's morning and we see young Alex (Jean -Phillippe Boriau) waking up and speaking with his girlfriend, Kate. Alex is a dancer looking the next gig. Later that night, Alex gets a phone call to meet a detective who has found his father. Later that night, Alex visits the bar and watched Gloria perform. He is unable to deal with the fact that his potential father is a drag queen. He flees but the uncertainty draws him back the next day.
He returns to the bar to actually talk to Gloria but is confused with the auditions being held the following day. Alex decides to dress up in drag himself and audition to be Gloria's next protege as Kandi. After an awkward audition, and despite being an awful drag performer, Kandi gets the gig. When his girlfriend finds the dress, she leaves Alex. When things turn a bit seductive between Gloria and Kandi, Toni's daughter, Julie shows up saying that she needs a break from their little "family", and her mom. Alex and Gloria continue to bond at Alex's apartment. In a weirdly seductive scene, their wigs get knocked off and Alex wipes away Gloria's makeup to reveal the man underneath, Sam. They continue their seduction and share a kiss, which leads to a rather sensual sex scene between the two. We presume are father and son.
To find out where the story goes, you will have to watch the film. This is a beautiful story about a drag queen and a young dancer in search of someone. As the story unfolds and Alex wins the role of Gloria's next drag protege, Alex' initial conflict slowly becomes sexual attraction. "We follow along this potentially disastrous path as both Alex and Gloria/Sam try to sort out what kind of love is there: the love between two men, the love a son has for his father, the love of an orphaned child finally reconnecting with his family."