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Remembering the Man
- Director: Nickolas Bird; Eleanor Sharpe
- Writer: Nickolas Bird
- Producer: Nickolas Bird; Phil Hunt
CGiii Comment
As out-of-character as out-of-character can be...this is a personal review!
Having read the book, seen the play, watched the film, knew the boys...you'd think I would be a little tired of this story. Nothing could be further from the truth! Holding/Remembering the Man will always be a conduit to those memories...thank you.
In a tiny cinema on a rainy, Friday afternoon...a mere 6 of us watched...as I sobbed, smiled and, remembered those two boys...I remembered all the friends I have lost. It was a rainy day...punctuated with sunshine...my memories, their memory...precious.
My only complaint [nothing to do with the film]...the chap who introduced the film described Tim & John as a 'queer couple', they were NOT! They were a gay couple, having known them...they were - most definitely - a gay couple! This 'queer' thing is fine & dandy, if you identify as 'queer' - most gay men [possibly, of a certain age] do not. Stop this transference...respect the identities of others...as you demand the respect for your own identities.
Respect...is a two-way street :). Babies!
I shall now climb down from my soap-box. Respectfully. I shall now refrain from shouting at clouds...as I have been told - by the 'queer community' - I do, too often. I have always been gay...never queer, although the school bullies told me I was!
Defiantly gay :)
Always remembering.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
At a prestigious Catholic boys school in Melbourne in the seventies, Tim Conigrave and John Caleo fell madly in love. Their passionate, tempestuous, operatic romance lasted for sixteen years, facing disapproval, temptation, separation, and the looming shadow of the Grim Reaper. Their star crossed relationship was immortalized in Timothy Conigrave's memoir Holding the Man, and has been adapted for stage and screen. This is the true story of how Romeo met Romeo and what happened ever after.