Review: 'Joyland,' a Pakistani queer-cinema milestone, lays bare the complexity of desire

It's one of the many resonant pleasures of "Joyland," a visually arresting, politically forceful melodrama from Pakistan, that you'll spend the early going figuring out exactly who its characters are — in and of themselves, and also in relation to each other. There's Haider (Ali Junejo), the mild-mannered young man we first see roughhousing with three kids (and hiding under a sheet that, in a slyly suggestive image, obscures his figure and gender). But as we soon realize, those girls aren't his daughters; they're his nieces. The tired-looking woman who's just gone into labor isn't