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Bent (1997)
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Bent debuted onstage in 1979 with Ian McKellen starring in the London production and Richard Gere in its later Broadway version. The film version is adapted by the playwright, Martin Sherman, and closely follows his play's story of two gay concentration camp victims who are sent to Dachau and who fall in love, using their relationship as an emotional crutch in their efforts to rebuff the horror of the Holocaust. Max (Clive Owen), would rather wear a yellow star and proclaim himself a Jew than be lanced with the pink triangle that designates homosexuality. Horst, (Lothaire Bluteau) chastises him for his homophobia. Later the...
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Bent Movie Review by Zara  (11/14/2007) |
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Ever wonder what BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN would have been like if the love story was in the middle of World War 2, set in Berlin and starring a young, hot Clive Owen? I'm not trying to demean the story that is told here, but I wanted to use one of the most recognized pieces of homosexual cinema in order to get the ball rolling....
(complete Bent review by Zara)
| Bent Movie Review by Jarrod (7/24/2007) |
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'Bent' is the harrowing story of a homosexual man named Max (Clive Owen), who is arrested by the Nazis and sent to Dachau, where he meets Horst (Lothaire Bluteau), and falls in love with him. Their lives and fates are closely intertwined, they converse each day they transfer rocks from one pile to another, a task that is...
(complete Bent review by Jarrod)
This heart-breaking and lovely film is about two homosexual men in love during the Holocaust who are sent to a concentration camp and unable to express their feeling for one another while working side by side.
I first saw this film when I was about 14 and it stayed with me. I watched it again and I cried again. I didn't...
(complete Bent review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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