Showing posts with label Gay Britannia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gay Britannia. Show all posts

Queers. (2017)

2017 | UK | Mark Gatiss | ★★★★

Screened as part of the BBC's Gay Britannia season, Mark Gatiss's witty and upbeat though never romanticised Queers. is a series of eight pub-set, decades-spanning monologues, starring and written by an array of well-corralled British talent.

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"Curated and directed by Mark Gatiss, Queers sees eight new and established writers respond to the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act which partially decriminalised homosexual acts between men. Taking in 1957's Wolfenden Report, the HIV crisis and the 1967 Sexual Offence Act itself, the monologues will explore some of the most poignant, funny, tragic and riotous moments of British gay history and the very personal rites-of-passage of British gay men through the last one hundred years." BBC


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Against the Law (2017)

2017 | UK | Brian Fillis | ★★★★

Screened as part of the BBC's Gay Britannia season, Brian Fillis's beautifully crafted, '50s-set Against the Law is a powerful historical docudrama, featuring sobering talking heads testimony from several elderly gay men and a great central performance from the ever-wonderful Daniel Mays.

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"Against the Law follows the affair between celebrated Fleet Street journalist Peter Wildeblood and serviceman Eddy McNally. The exposure of their relationship had devastating consequences, leading to public vilification and prison sentences for Wildeblood and his friends Michael Pitt-Rivers and Lord Montagu of Beaulieu. Enduring a year-long incarceration that involved attempts to alter his sexual orientation, Wildeblood emerged with a determination to challenge the draconian laws that shattered the lives of generations of gay men." Network


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Man in an Orange Shirt (2017)

2017 | UK | Patrick Gale | ★★

Screened as part of the BBC's Gay Britannia season, Patrick Gale's disappointing but vaguely likeable Man in an Orange Shirt is a two-part romantic drama, hamstrung by bland performances, unconvincing dialogue, and an ill-fitting score.

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"This captivating drama from the makers of Broadchurch and Apple Tree Yard explores forbidden wartime love vividly contrasted with a present-day romance nearly derailed by the consequences of the 1940s tale with which it is so intertwined. Written by best-selling author Patrick Gale, Man in an Orange Shirt features an exciting cast of outstanding young stars alongside Oscar winner Vanessa Redgrave." Network


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