The best part of this disappointing mish-mash of a film is the opening sequence which is footage of Yves St Laurent announcing to the world that he is about to retire. In a highly dramatic speech that he stumbles through in which, amongst other things, he confesses to the demons (drink and drugs) he has … Continue reading
The Cantone family pasta business in Italy is ready for some new blood. Dad is getting old and looking to his two grown-up sons Antonio (Alessandro Preziosi) and Tommaso (Riccardo Scamarcio) to take over so that he can retire. Tommaso wants no part of it as he wants to be a writer and return … Continue reading
Emmanuel is a man of very few words, a hustler and the live-in lover of Omar. They live in an apartment in a tower block in Gennevilliers a working class suburb of Paris. When Omar announces that he is going to New York for a week to work on a film project, an angry Emmanuel … Continue reading
The celebrated gay poet William Meredith was 52 years old when he met and fell in love with poetry student Richard Harteis, less than half his age, in 1972. In the early days of their relationship Meredith’s professional reputation continued to grow as he hiked up countless of honors as Poetry Consultant to the Library of … Continue reading
J R Ackersley was a British writer and editor who started working with the BBC in London the year after its founding in 1927. He published many emerging poets and writers who became influential in Great Britain, and later wrote his own highly successful memoir. He was also openly gay, a rarity in his time … Continue reading