Derek Jarman's Sebastiane. A gay film about Sat Sebastiane, his sufferg and martyrdom. The film is notable for havg s dialogue Lat.
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- ‘ROTTG THE SUN’ REVIEW: SEBASTIáN SILVA GETS SEXUALLY EXPLIC ABOUT THE TROUBLE WH BEG GAY
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
‘ROTTG THE SUN’ REVIEW: SEBASTIáN SILVA GETS SEXUALLY EXPLIC ABOUT THE TROUBLE WH BEG GAY
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A gay film about Sat Sebastiane, his sufferg and martyrdom. The Motn Picture Productn Co, also known as the Hays Co after censor/stick--the-mud Will Hays, regulated film ntent for nearly 40 years, rtrictg, among other thgs, pictns of homosexualy.
Filmmakers still managed to get around the Co, but gay characters were cloaked nuendo, leadg to some necsary dg.
Based on a one-act play by Tennsee Williams, the story alt wh a number of taboo subjects, chief among them homosexualy and ct. The character Sebastian Venable is clearly a homosexual who di at the hands of his “victims. Vidal, however, refed to make the film an anti-gay polemic, and so the film is rife wh gay subtext.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
Vlet, Sebastian’s mother (Hepburn) often refers to her son’s vulnerabily; his great sensivy — words for “gay. ” Named after the “patron sat of gays” — a portra of whom hangs the Venable home….
Wh all the queer men volved s creatn — Williams, Vidal and Clift — the film also works as somethg of a gay parable.