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Warning: this article contains spoilers.
A lonely something screenwriter living in an almost-empty London apartment block, Adam (Andrew Scott) is alienated, exhausted and struggling to write about his past, but can’t acquire beyond the opening line.
One evening, Harry (Paul Mescal), a younger man from downstairs, appears at his door. He’s tipsy, vulnerable, flirty and charming. “There’s vampires at my door,” he says. Adam doesn’t let him in and later reveals that apprehension had stopped him.
This rings genuine, especially for a something male lover man like Adam: someone who grew up in the s, during a period of rampant and violent homophobia and the AIDS crisis. England and Wales had partially decriminalised homosexuality in , but Thatcher’s Britain was an ugly place for Gay people.
The screenplay Adam is writing is set in , the year that Section 28 was introduced, banning the “promotion” of homosexuality. At that period, the tabloids demonised AIDS victims as deviant plague-carriers and there were terrifying government health warnings on national television.
Homosexuality remained illegal i
10 Best LGBTQ Movies Set In The UK
If you’re looking for a production that highlights what it means to be both British and gay, stare no further than the list below.
This selection contains ten of the top LGBTQ films that have been made in the UK.
Have we missed a movie that you think deserves a place on this list? Let us know in the comments below.
Weekend ()
Director Andrew Haigh knows how to draw on our heartstrings. His most recent film, the devastating All of Us Strangers (see below) was a deeply emotional meditation on loss and grief with its tale of a gay man haunted by memories of a lost companion. Weekend is just as moving, though this time around, the men at the centre of the tale haven&#;t yet parted.
Russell (Tom Cullen) and Glen (Chris New) meet at a gay nightclub in Nottingham. They hook up for what is ostensibly a one-night be upright. However, their run-in turns out to be something far more than a night of meaningless sex. As the two get to know one another, intimately and otherwise, they form an intense connection with one another over the course of o
Romance
Film review of director Andrew Haigh&#;s film about a gay screenwriter who enters into a relationship with a mysterious man as he finds out his supposedly dead parents are alive.
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Synopsis
Adam (Andrew Scott) is a reserved gay writer living in London, traumatised by the death of his parents in a car accident when he was a boy.
One night, after a fire alarm, his younger neighbour Harry (Paul Mescal) drunkenly makes a go by, which Adam awkwardly rebuffs.
Slowly, these two lonely men become closer and establish a relationship that will have profound, tragic consequences.
Review by Jason Day
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10 great British gay films
Few countries can rival the UK when it comes to making great and diverse gay films. This may come as a surprise from a region where male homosexuality was illegal until as recently as , and where gay marriage continues to ruffle right-wingers, swivel-eyed or otherwise. Yet despite their often taboo nature, films with gay characters acquire been around since the silent era.
So what key British gay films are out there? We’ve narrowed down the list to films easily available on DVD, although honourable mention must go to the über-rare Two Gentlemen Sharing (), a swinging slice of the 60s that hinted at interracial homosexuality. And if you like Vicious (millions seem to), you may get a perverse smash out of Staircase (), a dreadful vehicle for Richard Burton and Rex Harrison as two ageing queens in a perpetual state of mutual- and self-loathing.
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