WATCH: Drag Love Story ‘Unicorns’ Releases Fearless New Trailer

Movie UK

2024-05-22
11:36

This is a love story for all genders!

Queer film ‘Unicorns’ has released its first trailer after being confirmed for a United Kingdom and Ireland release on July 5, 2024!

It is a cross-cultural romance drama film about Luke (Ben Hardy), a single father from Essex who works as a mechanic, and a British Indian drag queen Aysha (Jason Patel) living a double life. When their paths collide, an emotional search for identity is sparked.

In the newly released teaser trailer, we see how Luke lives a monotonous life until one fated night when he meets Aysha in a drag show who trances Luke with her beauty and showmanship on stage. The two immediately hit it off, even sharing a passionate kiss after the show. But Luke realizes that Aysha is biologically a man and is boggled down by his conflicted feelings. Confused, he leaves the show. Their paths inevitably cross again when Aysha offers Luke a job by driving her and her co-queens to their gigs. Between destinations, stopovers, and crossroads, the two get to learn a thing or two about love and each other.

Although the film is romantic in nature, it also dives deep into the political aspect of drag and the cruelty that queens face for their craft as well as the the nitty gritty reality of the mundane lives of the working middle class.

This is supported by a review made by the Hollywood Reporter, “….There’s no attempt to box in Luke’s sexuality or Aysha’s gender with labels. Nor is the film much interested in drawing any sweeping conclusions about the communities each belongs to — although its matter-of-fact acknowledgments about the everyday stresses of working-class life or the violent hostility faced by gay and trans people are statements in themselves.”

Watch the trailer here: