Sunday, December 28, 2008

Chris and Don

documentary

This was a very lopsided film. They attempted a dual biopic of Christopher Isherwood and his longtime companion Don. But Isherwood was a major literary figure and well worth the attention this film brought. His first hand accounts of Weimar Germany have received world-wide acclaim and made the basis of several plays and films. 

Unfortunately he's dead. So the major focus of the film, necessarily, is Don who is an undistinguished, aging queen. He first hooked up with Isherwood when he was 16, essentially as his boy toy. Their relationship lasted but that fact alone doesn't make this guy interesting. He comes across as shallow and self-absorbed. The camera crew follows him around while he does his errands and I found myself why I was watching this. He does portraits which to my eye were generic, the kind of work you could find at garage sales everywhere.

Not worth it.

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