Best known for the unexpectedly soul-shattering San Francisco suicide doc “The Bridge,” indie filmmaker Eric Steel came out and came of age in 1980s New York at a moment just before AIDS devastated…
Running time: 119 MIN.came out and came of age in 1980s New York at a moment just before AIDS devastated the city’s gay community. Such timing must have been surreal, to assume something so liberating about one’s own identity, only to watch in fear and uncertainty as this fraternity of newfound freedom collapsed around him.
This is a subtle film, so understated at times that Steel’s intentions may escape audiences entirely. But it’s shot by the same DP as last year’s “Judy” and carried by the performance of the young actor who plays its teenage protagonist,, a yeshiva student who discovers clues to his sexuality in an unlikely place, the Jewish retirement center where he agrees to board with his widowed grandfather .
In an early scene, David drinks stolen vodka with a bunch of boys his age, and they take the subway into the city, where all the guys but him easily strike up conversations with a group of girls, drifting off to leave David standing awkward and alone, a stranger to this heterosexual mating ritual. Later, it’s him who’s being hit on when a gypsy cab stops to offer Josef and his oblivious grandson a ride.
David’s an avid reader, but his visits to the library bring him one step closer to the world of gay cruising, as men follow one another into a corner bathroom for activities Steel leaves up to the imagination. Before long, David finds the courage to enter an East Village bar where the guy pouring drinks reads James Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s Room” behind the counter. It would be a cliché, but he knows it: The book is the bartender’s prop, and it works.
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