Critic wrangle: "Chris & Don. A Love Story."

2008-06-13 17:00:02

"Chris & Don. A Love Story" is a documentary about the longterm romance between artist Don Bachardy and "Berlin Stories" writer Christopher Isherwood — the two met when Bachardy was 18 and Isherwood some 30 years older, and were together, openly, for three decades, through times not always hospitable to gay relationships. Tina Mascara and Guido Santi directed; Bachardy is now 74 and Isherwood passed away over 20 years ago. Grouping "Chris & Don" with Derek Jarman doc "Derek," Armond White at the New York Press writes that "These gay documentaries show more loving than today's gay film fiction... 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 of gay experience." Similar sentiments from Michael Koresky at indieWIRE: "If only someone would make a fictional gay romance that had as much...

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