Friday, September 05, 2014
Back in town
An ex comes back to town and disrupts the peacefulness of the land where he used to belong.
An eternal theme.
This time, the ex is gay and comes back from Spain for more than a hello.
He calls his ex and say's he is back. The boyfriend has a new partner. The reunion is fraught.
A kind of "all hell breaks loose" in a quiet but very upsetting way.
It is August (2012)
So it is hot and uncomfortable and every one is on edge anyway.
Raw nerves.
This is a very good movie about the past colliding with the present.
All the acting is great and the scenes of LA in summer are ongoing and wonderful to look at. Even the hot uncomfortable ones.
I have seen this before and it part of my retrospective of most of the gay films we have in our collection.
It is a 4 out of Netflix5. It is highly re-watchable because of the subtle interplay of the character's reactions. It is tough to work at appearing adult and civilized when your hormones are crying out to say nothing of the feeling of history coming back to submerge you.
