The rereleased Merchant-Ivory film picts gay love wh a straightforwardns that few films sce have matched, says Guardian lumnist Charlotte Higgs
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MRICE AT 30: THE GAY PERD DRAMA THE WORLD WASN'T READY FOR
A gay classic that is suated at the begng of the twentieth century.
Clive is gay, but Mrice don't want to know anythg about . 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'. Of urse he wants to be himself, but society don't accept gay people.
When he more or ls cis to live as a gay man bosom iend Clive chang his md, ightened by a lawsu agast a gay man.