Sunday, June 03, 2012
SIXTIES GAY
Today's Favorite Gay Film, Number 6, was
directed by Tom Ford and starring Colin FIrth. Adapted from a story by Christopher Isherwood.
This film is beautiful to watch, it is a Tom Ford life that we see played out by a widower whose life alone is no longer worth living.
His partner of many years, Mathew Goode, an architect, is killed suddenly in an auto accident. No AIDS in the 60s. Other deaths, other ways.
Ford is proud as are the actors (the "making of featurette) that this man and his friends are not distinguishable from a straight couple and then go on about how they are different. A kind of weird deceit to the film. I am not like straight people, neither are my lover and my friends.
While this is a kind of closety way of looking at things, that was actually the way gay life was lived in the 60s. It is just that the people that made this film are in the now.
Strange.
But the featurette is not a movie. The movie is very good, and sometimes hotly gay. A student of the single man and a wonderful hustler heat things up.
Colin Firth is great. The camera rests on him throughout the film and he supports the entire enterprise with his performance.
So, in balance it is a 5 out of Netflix5. Worth seeing again and again for the subtleties.
