Movie about two gay men
10 great British homosexual films
Few countries can rival the UK when it comes to making superb and diverse queer films. This may come as a surprise from a country where male homosexuality was illegal until as recently as , and where gay marriage continues to ruffle right-wingers, swivel-eyed or otherwise. Yet despite their often taboo nature, films with gay characters possess been around since the silent era.
So what key British queer films are out there? We’ve narrowed down the list to films easily available on DVD, although honourable talk about must go to the über-rare Two Gentlemen Sharing (), a swinging slice of the 60s that hinted at interracial homosexuality. And if you like Vicious (millions seem to), you may get a perverse kick out of Staircase (), a dreadful vehicle for Richard Burton and Rex Harrison as two ageing queens in a perpetual state of mutual- and self-loathing.
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Film review of director Andrew Haigh&#;s film about a gay screenwriter who enters into a relationship with a mysterious man as he finds out his supposedly dead parents are alive.
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Synopsis
Adam (Andrew Scott) is a reserved gay writer living in London, traumatised by the death of his parents in a car accident when he was a boy.
One night, after a fire alarm, his younger neighbour Harry (Paul Mescal) drunkenly makes a go by, which Adam awkwardly rebuffs.
Slowly, these two lonely men become closer and develop a relationship that will have profound, tragic consequences.
Review by Jason Day
!!!SPOILER ALERT!!!
It&#;s not often I scribble about movies in the first person, but then it&#;s not often a movie moves me to the point where I have the sensation of myself on the large screen.
I&#;m passionate about motion picture as anyone who knows me knows, anything from silent
Gay loneliness and familial trauma seize center stage in 'All of Us Strangers'
Haigh, 50, calls “All of Us Strangers” his most personal film to date. The auteur said he was keen to convey the particular challenges faced by gay men appreciate him who were born during the s. Members of this “middle generation,” he noted, were largely spared the waves of AIDS-crisis deaths. And yet they had to come to grips with their sexuality under the shadow of that epidemic and during a corresponding period of virulent homophobia.
In Adam, Haigh sought to personify how these twin traumas could be as responsible for maintaining a gay man’s emotional paralysis as a vehicle crash killing his parents at the dawn of his adolescence.
During his own coming of age, Haight said, he was left to wonder, “‘How on ground do I ever get to live? How do I ever get to have a relationship?’”
As Harry melts Adam’s defenses, he asks the older man whether he’d fancy having intercourse. Adam says he would — and then reveals that for a long time, he had avoided penetrative sex entirely, “for noticeable reasons.” Belong
This Film Is a Tale of Two Older Queer Men Finding Love in Hong Kong
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No country for old gay men: Twilight’s Kiss by director Ray Yeung imagines two men already in their formative years and getting another chance at love
TextArthur Tam
“To survive, they’ve had to ignore who they are,” says director Ray Yeung about the older same-sex attracted men of Hong Kong, the subject of his latest film, Twilight’s Kiss.
For a long time, the future was inconceivable for gay men. Even before the Aids pandemic, social stigma led to the pathologisation and criminalisation of the global community. Lgbtq+ men lived in the shadows of society, maintaining their veneer of heteronormative stability by marrying unbent women at great charge to themselves and their families.
This idea of hiding one’s identity might appear like a distant memory to today’s self-actualised youth. Still, we purposefully exit behind our forebears to carry their trauma alone. “Their sadness and shame” are the story Yeung wants to tell. He says, “We wouldn’t be where we are today without what th