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Contents:
- MRICE AT 30: THE GAY PERD DRAMA THE WORLD WASN'T READY FOR
- KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
- OUT DIRECTOR IRA SACHS SLAMS HIS NEW QUEER FILM’S NC-17 RATG, LLG THE MPA “ANTI-GAY”
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- JAM IVORY AND JAM WILBY LOOK BACK AT THE MAKG OF ‘MRICE,’ A TIME WHEN GAY HAPPY ENDGS WERE RARE
- GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
MRICE AT 30: THE GAY PERD DRAMA THE WORLD WASN'T READY FOR
The rereleased Merchant-Ivory film picts gay love wh a straightforwardns that few films sce have matched, says Guardian lumnist Charlotte Higgs * maurice film gay *
Mrice, a crisis of self-loathg, seeks a “cure” for his homosexualy, before fallg love wh Clive’s gamekeeper, Scudr, played by Rupert film – released the year before the troductn of sectn 28, and to the midst of the Aids crisis – was rpectfully received but has never had anythg like the popular, Middle England appeal of A Room Wh a View.
Many of their greatt films evoke a sense of unspoken sire, of any persuasn, simmerg beneath a placid surface of m – a reprsn wh which many a gay person, unable always to eely articulate their romantic self, has been able to empathise.
KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIEND
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Mrice, a sense, was the duo’s cematic g-out: the story of a young man growg to his homosexualy polely hostile English society, ’s a film that exquisely queers the stiff-upper-lip emotns so central to the Merchant Ivory ’s a slight aloofns to Mrice that is part of s bety. The film only breath when he fally do, first via a tratg romantic affair wh fellow stunt and social climber Clive Durham (Grant, perfectly his floppy charm years before Four Weddgs and a Funeral) – but ’s heartbreak that giv the film s red-blood there, as a send romantic chapter wh gamekeeper Alec Scudr (Rupert Grav, pletg perhaps the prettit posh-boy triangle screen history) begs, Mrice gas both emotnal sweep and timate psychologil tail: a tame entry may be the LGBT non, but few films have exprsed que so sweetly and nakedly the challeng of simply beg a gay man, partnered or otherwise – how difficult n be to n wh human is not emotnally universal terra, and was a rare subject for prtige herage cema to take on: the film’s rpectful but dispassnate receptn 1987, not an era rich wh queer art the mastream, is no surprise retrospect.
Cocintally, hs screens aga the same year that Ivory is baskg the glory of a very different LGBT triumph: now 88, he’s a -wrer on Lu Guadagno’s queer g-of-age rhapsody Call Me By Your Name, a Sundance sensatn that realis the first sh of gay love wh all the woozy sensual excs that Mrice, te to s perd, chews. Until he adms he also has feelgs for persons of the same sex, even though tellectual circl homosexualy is 'the love that dare not speak s name'.
OUT DIRECTOR IRA SACHS SLAMS HIS NEW QUEER FILM’S NC-17 RATG, LLG THE MPA “ANTI-GAY”
Mrice returns to Lasker-Jon, who warns Mrice that England is a untry which “has always been discled to accept human nature” and advis he emigrate to a untry where homosexualy is no longer crimalised, like France or Italy.
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
Wrten as a tradnal Bildungsroman, or novel of character formatn, the plot follows the tle character as he als wh the problem of g of age as a homosexual the rtrictive society of the Edwardian era. On her advice, Clive Durham’s unnvcg nversn to heterosexualy durg a trip to Greece was jtified by creatg an episo which Clive’s universy iend Risley is arrted and imprisoned after a homosexual entrapment, which ightens Clive to marryg. The film expands the Wilan character of Lord Risley and se him sentenced to six months of hard labour for homosexual nduct; the novel, he is never imprisoned.
JAM IVORY AND JAM WILBY LOOK BACK AT THE MAKG OF ‘MRICE,’ A TIME WHEN GAY HAPPY ENDGS WERE RARE
Receptn the UK was different, wh The Tim qutng whether “so fiant a salute to homosexual passn should really be weled durg a spiralg AIDS crisis”. Mrice has won abundant praise the 30 years sce s ial release, both for the qualy of the film and the dacy wh which picted a gay love story at the height of the 1980s AIDS crisis.
“the lh, dignified ‘Mrice, ’ wh s share of man-on-man smooch, full-ontal male nudy, gay lovemakg and unabashed claratns of same-sex sire, as well as a ma character who was ultimately affirmative and unwaverg about his homosexualy (durg a time when was a crimal offense, no ls), land a unique place then-ntemporary gay culture.
GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
The New Yorker, a retrospective on the film 2017, stated, “…For many gay men g of age the eighti and neti, ‘Mrice’ was revelatory: a first glimpse, onscreen or anywhere, of what love between men uld look like”. The Guardian, scribg Mrice as “unrvalued 1987 and unrseen 2017”, lamented the relatively poor receptn of the film pared to s ld precsor A Room wh a View, sayg was “…filed away as, if not a disappotment, a lser diversn” bee was “put bluntly, too gay”.