Don Bachardy, Christopher Isherwood, John Boorman
The love story between British writer, Christopher Isherwood (whose book 'The Berlin Stories' inspired the musical and film Cabaret) and Don Bachardy, American portrait artist.
DVD Release Date: February 24, 2009
Stats: 47 reviews
This was a very well-made documentary but I did feel a bit uncomfortable about Chris and Don's relationship - not so much the age difference itself but the fact that it began at 16 and 46.
A really sweet and intimate documentary. The old home videos were priceless.
I really did enjoy this unconventional love story between author Christopher Isherwood (I am a Camera, Cabaret, etc) and Don Bachardy (an accomplished artist); and what makes their story unique is not only with the fact that they had a very open gay relationship back in the 50s t...( read more)
It's an extraordinary film that gay audiences will find particularly salient, no doubt, yet audiences with an affinity for the writings of Isherwood or nostalgia for the golden age of Hollywood may fi... full review
It's a sentimental and loving picture, playing out as a leisurely cocktail-hour stroll through an enchanting life. full review
Surprisingly, this 2007 documentary about their 34-year relationship becomes more engrossing as its focus shifts from Isherwood to Bachardy... full review
There's a bit of Pygmalion meets The Portrait of Dorian Gray to it, and yet part of the documentary's slyness involves probing those aspects while never losing sight of the pain and glories of any emo... full review
Despite an age difference of 30 years, their connection was immediately electric; their first kiss, the story goes, broke a window. full review
What could have been sordid emerges instead as fiercely funny and touching. Even the animated sequences featuring the lovers the way they imagined themselves -- Chris as a horse, Don as a cat -- reson... full review
A real-life romance to put all those rom-com fairy tales to shame. full review
By examining this older/younger couple for differences of social circumstance, individual ego and personal desire that pertain to any love relationship, Santi and Mascara present a complex testament o... full review
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