‘Of an Age’ Review: A Stirrg Atralian Gay Romance – The Hollywood Reporter

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• 10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS
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SET THE SUMMER OF 1999, THE ROMANCE THAT UNFOLDS BETWEEN 18-YEAR-OLD DANCER KOL (ELIAS ANTON) AND HIS IEND'S OLR BROTHER ADAM (THOM GREEN) MOV AT A RAPID YET BETIFUL PACE, REMISCENT OF LU GUADAGO’S “CALL ME BY YOUR NAME.” THIS EXPERIENCE IS CLEARLY TRANSFORMATIVE FOR BOTH CHARACTERS, YET CREDIBLY FLEETG, KEEPG MEMBERS OF THE DIENCE ON THE EDGE OF THEIR SEATS AS THEY AWA THE OUTE OF THE RELATNSHIP.THE BEGNG OF THE MOVIE JUMPS RIGHT TO A SPIRED — YET NFG — NARRATIVE. THE DIENCE IS PUT TO A STATE OF BEFUDDLEMENT AS THEY ARE FORCED TO FIGURE OUT THE EVENTS OF THE MOVIE OM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE CHARACTERS EXPERIENCG THEM. EBONY (HATTIE HOOK) WAK UP LOST ON A BEACH, UNSURE OF WHERE SHE IS BEE OF AN EVENTFUL, SUBSTANCE-FILLED NIGHT. IN A STATE OF PANIC, SHE LLS HER BT IEND AND DANCE PARTNER KOL TO BAIL HER OUT OF THE SUATN, BEE THEY BOTH NEED TO BE AT THEIR FAL DANCE PETN JT A FEW HOURS. HOWEVER, EBONY SOON DISVERS THAT SHE IS OVER AN HOUR AWAY, AND KOL HAS NO ACCS TO A R. SHE RACKS HER BRA FOR ANYONE WHO WOULD BE AVAILABLE TO HELP AND BEGDGGLY SENDS KOL TO E RETRIEVE HER WH HER OLR BROTHER, ADAM.FOR DIENC WH ANY CLUE WHAT THEY'RE GETTG TO, VERY QUICKLY BE CLEAR THAT ADAM AND KOL HAVE A GOOD AMOUNT OF CHEMISTRY BETWEEN THEM, SPE THEIR NTRASTG WALKS OF LIFE. THE CHARACTERS EXCHANGE WTY AND HUMORO DIALOGUE, DISVERG THAT THEIR TERTS ARE MUCH MORE ALIGNED THAN THEY WOULD HAVE EVER EXPECTED. AS THE RT OF THE NIGHT UNFOLDS, THE CHEMISTRY BETWEEN THE CHARACTERS SIARLY NTU TO GROW, RULTG MOMENTS OF PASSN AND SURREALISM THAT THE DIENCE WILL NEVER FET.ALTHOUGH “OF AN AGE” MIGHT IALLY FEEL LIKE A SEMI-CLICHE GAY G OF AGE STORY, THIS MOVIE SETS SELF APART THROUGH A JUMP TO THE YEAR 2010. IN THE SEND HALF OF THIS FILM, THE CHARACTERS ARE RNED AFTER A LONG SEPARATN BY A CHANCE AIRPORT N-; THEY ARE BOTH TOWN FOR EBONY'S WEDDG. WHAT THEN TRANSPIR FEELS LIKE A CHAOTIC FEVER DREAM, AS THE LATER HALF OF THE MOVIE ALL TAK PLACE ONE DAY, TAILG THE EVENTS OF EBONY’S WEDDG, AND THE STATE OF THE LOVER’S RELATNSHIP AFTER A NEARLY 15-YEAR HIAT, AS WELL AS TABLISHG HOW EACH OF THE CHARACTERS’ LIV WILL MOVE FORWARD OM YET ANOTHER FATEFUL DAY.WHILE THIS MOVIE STANDS OUT FOR A PELLG YET NOT GROUNDBREAKGLY ORIGAL NARRATIVE, IS ALSO VISUALLY DISTCT. THE FIRST HALF OF THE MOVIE NOTICEABLY UTILIZ A SQUARE AME TO MARTE THE EARLIER TIME PERD. THE MAJORY OF THE FILM’S SCREEN TIME IS SPENT WH DIALOGU BETWEEN THE LOVERS A R, ALLOWG THE FILM TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ZOOMED- SHOTS THAT ALLOW VIEWERS TO PAY FULL ATTENTN TO EACH OF THE CHARACTERS’ FACIAL EXPRSNS AND REACTNS. THERE ARE ALSO CLEAR TONAL SHIFTS BASED ON THE SETTG, AS THE NIGHTTIME ALLOWS CHARACTERS TO REVEAL THEIR TE SELV UNR THE GUISE OF DARKNS. ULTIMATELY, THE FILM TAK ADVANTAGE OF VISUAL QU AND ALTERATNS TO MAKE FOR A UNIQUE VIEWG EXPERIENCE.IN ADDN, THE SOUNDTRACK OF THIS MOVIE SERV TO BE MENTNED FOR S RANGG GENR AND EMPHASIS ON FOREIGN SONGS. WHETHER THE MIC PLAYG IS SERVG TO HELP THE CHARACTERS THE FILM FD MON TERTS AND VELOP THEIR RELATNSHIPS, OR JT HELPG TO MAKE THE ATMOSPHERE AND MOOD OF THE FILM MORE TIMATE, IS IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO NOTICE S PRENCE. FOR EXAMPLE, AS THE CHARACTERS BOND OVER A BOX OF SSETT ONE OF THEIR MANY R RIS HOME, THEY TRODUCE EACH OTHER TO NEW MIC, FURTHER REVEALG PARTS OF THEIR OWN DIVIDUAL WORLDS TO EACH OTHER.THE FILM HAS THE POWER TO BE PARTICULARLY TOUCHG TO DIENC DUE TO THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN THE LOVERS BEG EVABLY FORBIDN BY CIRCUMSTANC THAT NTUE TO SEPARATE THEM. IT LEAV DIENC WH A BTERSWEET FEELG THEIR HEARTS AS THEY E TO ACCEPT THE FACT THAT THE LOVERS WILL NOT HAVE A HAPPY ENDG. 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• OF AN AGE — A STIRRG ASIE GAY ROMANCE
• MOVI FOR GAY MEN AND THOSE WHO LOVE THEM
• WHIRLWD GAY ROMANCE 'OF AN AGE' HAS A TLY MOVG TRAILER
• ONLE DATG AMONG ATRALIAN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN: ROMANCE OR HOOKG UP?
• ‘OF AN AGE’ REVIEW: SMALL-SLE GAY ATRALIAN ROMANCE STRIK BIG EROTIC SPARKS
• EXCLIVE: THE BUDDG GAY ROMANCE THE FILM OF AN AGE
• RUGBY GAY ROMANCE
• ONLE DATG AMONG ATRALIAN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN: ROMANCE OR HOOKG UP?

10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS

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SET THE SUMMER OF 1999, THE ROMANCE THAT UNFOLDS BETWEEN 18-YEAR-OLD DANCER KOL (ELIAS ANTON) AND HIS IEND'S OLR BROTHER ADAM (THOM GREEN) MOV AT A RAPID YET BETIFUL PACE, REMISCENT OF LU GUADAGO’S “CALL ME BY YOUR NAME.” THIS EXPERIENCE IS CLEARLY TRANSFORMATIVE FOR BOTH CHARACTERS, YET CREDIBLY FLEETG, KEEPG MEMBERS OF THE DIENCE ON THE EDGE OF THEIR SEATS AS THEY AWA THE OUTE OF THE RELATNSHIP.THE BEGNG OF THE MOVIE JUMPS RIGHT TO A SPIRED — YET NFG — NARRATIVE. THE DIENCE IS PUT TO A STATE OF BEFUDDLEMENT AS THEY ARE FORCED TO FIGURE OUT THE EVENTS OF THE MOVIE OM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE CHARACTERS EXPERIENCG THEM. EBONY (HATTIE HOOK) WAK UP LOST ON A BEACH, UNSURE OF WHERE SHE IS BEE OF AN EVENTFUL, SUBSTANCE-FILLED NIGHT. IN A STATE OF PANIC, SHE LLS HER BT IEND AND DANCE PARTNER KOL TO BAIL HER OUT OF THE SUATN, BEE THEY BOTH NEED TO BE AT THEIR FAL DANCE PETN JT A FEW HOURS. HOWEVER, EBONY SOON DISVERS THAT SHE IS OVER AN HOUR AWAY, AND KOL HAS NO ACCS TO A R. SHE RACKS HER BRA FOR ANYONE WHO WOULD BE AVAILABLE TO HELP AND BEGDGGLY SENDS KOL TO E RETRIEVE HER WH HER OLR BROTHER, ADAM.FOR DIENC WH ANY CLUE WHAT THEY'RE GETTG TO, VERY QUICKLY BE CLEAR THAT ADAM AND KOL HAVE A GOOD AMOUNT OF CHEMISTRY BETWEEN THEM, SPE THEIR NTRASTG WALKS OF LIFE. THE CHARACTERS EXCHANGE WTY AND HUMORO DIALOGUE, DISVERG THAT THEIR TERTS ARE MUCH MORE ALIGNED THAN THEY WOULD HAVE EVER EXPECTED. AS THE RT OF THE NIGHT UNFOLDS, THE CHEMISTRY BETWEEN THE CHARACTERS SIARLY NTU TO GROW, RULTG MOMENTS OF PASSN AND SURREALISM THAT THE DIENCE WILL NEVER FET.ALTHOUGH “OF AN AGE” MIGHT IALLY FEEL LIKE A SEMI-CLICHE GAY G OF AGE STORY, THIS MOVIE SETS SELF APART THROUGH A JUMP TO THE YEAR 2010. IN THE SEND HALF OF THIS FILM, THE CHARACTERS ARE RNED AFTER A LONG SEPARATN BY A CHANCE AIRPORT N-; THEY ARE BOTH TOWN FOR EBONY'S WEDDG. WHAT THEN TRANSPIR FEELS LIKE A CHAOTIC FEVER DREAM, AS THE LATER HALF OF THE MOVIE ALL TAK PLACE ONE DAY, TAILG THE EVENTS OF EBONY’S WEDDG, AND THE STATE OF THE LOVER’S RELATNSHIP AFTER A NEARLY 15-YEAR HIAT, AS WELL AS TABLISHG HOW EACH OF THE CHARACTERS’ LIV WILL MOVE FORWARD OM YET ANOTHER FATEFUL DAY.WHILE THIS MOVIE STANDS OUT FOR A PELLG YET NOT GROUNDBREAKGLY ORIGAL NARRATIVE, IS ALSO VISUALLY DISTCT. THE FIRST HALF OF THE MOVIE NOTICEABLY UTILIZ A SQUARE AME TO MARTE THE EARLIER TIME PERD. THE MAJORY OF THE FILM’S SCREEN TIME IS SPENT WH DIALOGU BETWEEN THE LOVERS A R, ALLOWG THE FILM TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ZOOMED- SHOTS THAT ALLOW VIEWERS TO PAY FULL ATTENTN TO EACH OF THE CHARACTERS’ FACIAL EXPRSNS AND REACTNS. THERE ARE ALSO CLEAR TONAL SHIFTS BASED ON THE SETTG, AS THE NIGHTTIME ALLOWS CHARACTERS TO REVEAL THEIR TE SELV UNR THE GUISE OF DARKNS. ULTIMATELY, THE FILM TAK ADVANTAGE OF VISUAL QU AND ALTERATNS TO MAKE FOR A UNIQUE VIEWG EXPERIENCE.IN ADDN, THE SOUNDTRACK OF THIS MOVIE SERV TO BE MENTNED FOR S RANGG GENR AND EMPHASIS ON FOREIGN SONGS. WHETHER THE MIC PLAYG IS SERVG TO HELP THE CHARACTERS THE FILM FD MON TERTS AND VELOP THEIR RELATNSHIPS, OR JT HELPG TO MAKE THE ATMOSPHERE AND MOOD OF THE FILM MORE TIMATE, IS IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO NOTICE S PRENCE. FOR EXAMPLE, AS THE CHARACTERS BOND OVER A BOX OF SSETT ONE OF THEIR MANY R RIS HOME, THEY TRODUCE EACH OTHER TO NEW MIC, FURTHER REVEALG PARTS OF THEIR OWN DIVIDUAL WORLDS TO EACH OTHER.THE FILM HAS THE POWER TO BE PARTICULARLY TOUCHG TO DIENC DUE TO THE RELATNSHIP BETWEEN THE LOVERS BEG EVABLY FORBIDN BY CIRCUMSTANC THAT NTUE TO SEPARATE THEM. IT LEAV DIENC WH A BTERSWEET FEELG THEIR HEARTS AS THEY E TO ACCEPT THE FACT THAT THE LOVERS WILL NOT HAVE A HAPPY ENDG. 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Bizarrely, the film’s trailer seems to take a stand agast homosexualy, the narrator proclaimg that Tony is tryg “to pe om tangled, unnatural passns” and that “his relatnship is acceptable this age when moral standards are nfed”.

OF AN AGE — A STIRRG ASIE GAY ROMANCE

It’s nontg to thk of how Atralia fell love wh a tr of outrageo drag queens prancg their glor way across the outback, parts of the untry that had the world’s tought penalti for gay sex.

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One Tassie polician om the time, Robert Archer, even lled for homosexuals to be “tracked down and wiped out” by police. Crowe is the macho but vulnerable gay plumber wary of beg hurt and pg wh his overbearg widower dad.

One of the most explic Asie films to ga a mastream release, this sexual melodrama starrg Alex Dimrias as Ari, a gay Greek Atralian teenager Melbourne, pulled no punch when me to nudy, vlence and culture clash.

An spirg do about the 2006 World Cup of Gay Rugby fal between the San Francis Fog and the Sydney Convicts, narrated by former NRL great Ian Roberts, one of the few Asie field sportsmen to have e out.

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The tournament is lled The Bgham Cup after Mark Bgham, a gay gby player who died a hero after helpg to storm the ckp of Uned 93 on 9/11, preventg the plane om beg a terrorists’ weapon.

A gay Greek Atralian photographer (Ewen Llie) journeys to Europe to stter his dad’s ash, but unvers a sister fay curse which leads him to the seedit backwaters Greece, Paris and Budapt.

ONLE DATG AMONG ATRALIAN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN: ROMANCE OR HOOKG UP?

There have been plenty of high school g-out films, but none as raw or emotnally-charged as this (very) low-budget ’90s tale of two awkward teenagers clumsily workg out their feelgs for each other and pg wh their (very) dysfunctnal fai and latent homophobia. Viewg today durg another viral panmic brgs home how cel some policians at the time were for blamg the homosexual muny for the so-lled ‘gay plague’.

Gayby Baby (2015).

It follows the te story of Gerrard Conley (Lus Hedg), who was forced by his parents to enrol a gay nversn urse n by a sadistic therapist (Edgerton).

‘OF AN AGE’ REVIEW: SMALL-SLE GAY ATRALIAN ROMANCE STRIK BIG EROTIC SPARKS

Gayle (Goodreads Author). The Adventur of Priscilla, Queen of the Dert (1994)While same-sex marriage was only ma legal Atralia 2017, the untry has a fairly strong rerd on LGBT rights, and Sydney is one of the most gay-iendly ci the world.

Atralian cema has had a rather strange relatnship wh male homosexualy. Before the 1970s, the sexualy of probable gay characters was not ma explic, for example the effemate sal assistant  Dad and Dave Come to Town (1938).

The Set (1970) is the first Atralian film wh homosexualy as a central theme, while gay men appeared sexploatn favour such as Atralia after Dark (1975) and The ABCs of Love and Sex: Atralia Style (1978), which H was for homosexualy. Sign up to BFI Flare emailsGet the latt #BFIFlare news and ticket release Max 2: The Road Warrr (1981) featured a gay villa (the leather-clad Wez, enraged by the slayg of his lover), while more sympathetic homosexual characters appeared prison drama Stir (1980) and fay melodrama Mull (1988). The 1990s were a goln era for gay Ozzie films, while the new lennium has seen a glut of low-budget gay surfer dramas, cludg the easy-on-the-eye Newstle (2008), the nihilistic Drown (2015) and the downright bizarre Tan L (2006).

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The Naked Bunyip (1970)Homosexualy was tnip to many of the filmmakers behd the wave of sexploatn documentari that flourished Atralia the 1970s, which often served as an exce to show tillatg shots of lbians gettg down to bs the bedroom. Gay men, if they appeared, were ually shown as unsympathetic, bchy queens.

Not so The Naked Bunyip, the grandfather of Atralian sexploatn, which a lengthy segment is voted to a gay male dock worker, who talks ndidly about his life. The film draws parallels between the close mascule relatnships that form unr the Atralian phenomenon of ‘mathip’ and homosexualy, while talkg heads discs the importance of crimalisg gay sex, which at the time of the documentary was a crimal offence  Atralia.

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Although seldom tegorised as a gay film, viewers won’t need to dive ep for the queer subtext this vlent, male-domated world. Bond himself was gay, an early bar scene looks like a scene om William Friedk’s S&M thriller Cisg (1980), while is clear that some sort of sexual act, probably a rape, tak place between the teacher and Doc after a vlent stggle, sendg the protagonist to another spiral of spair.

The Clic (1982)In this fun and bawdy bo of scy edy and sex tn aid, we dip to a day the life of a VD clic, where a laid-back doctor (Chris Haywood) and a pdish medil stunt (Simon Burke) tend to patients of all walks of life, om ank sex workers to ashamed hoewiv, om promiscuo gay men to cheatg hbands. Appalled when a motached man the wag room flirts wh him, the stunt’s homophobia be manift the dramatic scene when he realis the doctor, too, is gay, snarlg: “Those men e here and they drop their pants for you. It’s boosted hugely by a very likeable performance om Haywood as the gay doctor, who eventually manag to fe a bond of iendship wh the nservative youngster.

The Everlastg Secret Fay is one such film, an often homophobic tale of a young man who be termed to climb the social ladr and live the high life when he be the object of sire of a closeted homosexual polician.

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It’s an easy film to mock, and s kky scen of bondage and a (thankfully off-screen) paful-soundg sex act wh a large crab teeter to mp, and suggt the filmmaker’s opn of gay men may not be very high.

But ’s wickedly entertag, Arthur Dignam is excellent as the polician, and ’s a unique film that uld not have been ma at any other time, wh sex scen too graphic for before the 1980s and an anti-gay streak too unpalatable for the 1990s. Filled wh quotable l and gags (not least the monstroly polilly rrect “the only bang you’re ever gonna get” eback that Bernatte serv a homophobic woman), the film was adapted to a hugely succsful mil that toured worldwi. The Sum of Us is based on David Stevens’ play about a blokey gay guy who liv at home wh his lovg widowed father.