Sunday, August 28, 2016
Retro
Today's film is a new gay film with an old premise.
Young man loose in the big city gets help from some of his friends who have various motives. No satisfactory ending.
First, as a long ago Philadelphian, the city scape is superb.A lot of night shots show off the good points without letting the grub shine through.
Second, the people in this are very appealing and probably staple characters from any coming out film. This is not a first coming out story but more a mature coming out story when the bar life and the fast moving scene fails to satisfy.
I think this makes it hard to film in an exciting way because these people are jaded and have reached a kind of jumping off place.
It is interesting.
Made by the same guy who made one of the wonderful movies in my DVD collection, Strapped (2010). This is a worthy addition but lacks some of the innocence of that venture (a few actors in the first return here).
It is a 4 out of Netflix5. Worth seeing again if the opportunity comes up.
