Film
Prick Up Your Ears + live performance
- Director
- Stephen Frears
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 110 mins
Gary Oldman is delightfully sardonic, mincing gay playwright Joe Orton, buggering and swearing his way through the nasty, repressed early ‘60s. Then Alfred Molina‘s Kenneth Halliwell kills him with a hammer. Superbly scripted by Alan Bennett, who supplies plenty of quotable one-liners, Stephen Frears‘ biopic gives a real sense of what it was like to be gay in grim mid-’60s London. Amusingly, this is yet another of those films whose original disdainful review in Time Out has been quietly tweaked to acknowledge subsequent acclaim.
Presented in association with Bristol Pride, this Cinema Rediscovered 30th anniversary screening is introduced with a live performance by artist Tom Marshman, who will, it says here, “uncover the wonderful world of gay cruising, reflecting on the past, the present, the personal, the overheard and the shameful.”
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