Film: Love In Three Keys

THIS will be the real test. Hitherto homosexuals in mainstream movies were marginal characters, or unequivocally comic or tragic figures. Now comes Terrence McNally’s screen adaptation of his play Love! Valour! Compassion! and all is changed.

This is the story of three country weekends involving eight undefused homosexuals. They love and hate, play and wrangle, kiss and carry on, are connubially devoted or brazenly promiscuous. Theirs is an enclosed, self-sufficient world, with no soft-pedaling of sexual appetites and activities, and no concessions, let alone apologies, to heterosexual sensibilities.

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THIS will be the real test. Hitherto homosexuals in mainstream movies were marginal characters, or unequivocally comic or tragic figures. Now comes Terrence McNally’s screen adaptation of his play Love! Valour! Compassion! and all is changed.

This is the story of three country weekends involving eight undefused homosexuals. They love and hate, play and wrangle, kiss and carry on, are connubially devoted or brazenly promiscuous. Theirs is an enclosed, self-sufficient world, with no soft-pedaling of sexual appetites and activities, and no concessions, let alone apologies, to heterosexual sensibilities.