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I suspect this will be an art house offering not opening in wide release. By what I've read it appears to have solid production values.Gob wrote:Anybody in SF looking for a good gay movie?
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I'm sure there are many...Anybody in SF looking for a good gay movie?
Me, I'm not much of a love story (let alone two love stories) movie kinda guy...Two connected love stories, set sixty years apart...
The adage "The more things change, the more they stay the same" could be the subtext of the glorious new English film "Man in an Orange Shirt," which premiered at Frameline 42, was originally shown on BBC Two last year, broadcast on PBS' Masterpiece Theatre (and streamable for free through July 1) and is now available on DVD.
It was written by the gay English novelist Patrick Gale to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, which decriminalized homosexuality in Britain. Gale based his screenplay partially on his own family drama of his mother burning discovered love letters his father had received from another man. This heart-rending tale consists of two love stories, separated by 60 years, revealing how fraught sexual identity can be regardless of social progress.
The film begins during WWII in Italy when British Captain Michael Berryman (dreamy actor-model Oliver Jackson-Cohen) saves the life of the wounded Captain Thomas March (James McArdle), an official war artist. Michael realizes that he had gone to school with Thomas. He is engaged to his childhood sweetheart Flora (Joanna Vanderham), but while visiting Thomas in the hospital during his recuperation realizes he is attracted to him. In a great seduction line, the injured Thomas, while trying to pee, says to Michael, "It's bloody embarrassing, but I can't button my fly single-handedly," which leads to them kissing. Thomas asks Michael to look him up after the war is over. Michael locates Thomas in London, and they spend a passionate weekend together at Michael's rundown country cottage. Thomas sketches Michael for a painting that will become "Man in an Orange Shirt." Thomas wants them to be together, despite the fact that homosexuality in England was then illegal. Michael replies, "You didn't think we could set up home together like man and wife?" Instead, Michael invites Thomas to be his best man at his wedding to Flora. He reluctantly complies.
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