A Very Serious Person
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Movie Reviews of A Very Serious Person
Movie Review: Interesting
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie has an odd quality that is hard to pin-down. You will see some "typical" stereotypes/characters...and when all is said and done, you will likely feel a bit sad. The characters are a bit Great Expectations and a bit Who's the Boss... the plot is neither and well thought out. Movie Review: Melodrama of A VERY SERIOUS PERSON
Summary: 5 Stars
A Very Serious Person
This is a film thats very seldom thought about, much less made in this country! The quanity and depth, which the story line explores the characters, is nothing short of inspirational! The director has seen to it that the audience is feted to a feast of glimpses in the maturation of not only the young kid but also the primary care giver! Just a true delight to observe such a cinemagraphic brilliance! This film has to be added to your Collection, if not, just for the characterizations!! THE EVOLUTION OF SEXUAL IDENITY!!!
Movie Review: Seriously good
Summary: 5 Stars
I have to admit, bad person that I am, that I didn't expect this movie to be what it was. I am used to seeing Mr Busch in his campier roles. He is brilliant here as the tightly-laced danish male nurse to (the brilliant) Polly Bergen, an ailing matriarch intent upon having a last summer with her orphaned grandson (a perfect P.J. Verhoest) before she dies and sends him off the relatives in Florida.
Any of this could have been played for cheap laughs and high camp, and audiences would have lapped it up like cream. But Busch takes a higher road here; each character is a fully realised person, flawed, hopeful heroic and base. If you don't tear up at the end of this, you just might be dead.
Movie Review: The Bar Has Been Raised!
Summary: 5 Stars
A Very Serious Person is instantly the classic heart-warming gay film for the ages. Its a coming-of-age film set in Florida with a cast to die for. Charles Bush, is the gay Danish nanny and pseudo father-figure to new-comer P.J. Verhoest, who plays Gil, a 13 year-old Hollywood-obsessed boy, bound for stage and the multi-colored life, and Dana Ivey, who plays the dying Betty is marvelous in this gently picture about love and respect in American. This film touches on many themes and manages to give them all the respect that is due to them. I recommend you watch it again and again.Movie Review: Outstanding Gay Themed Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Having purchased "The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros", I was led to this
little known film starring Polly Bergen. I was unaware it was a truly
gay film, though it's coming of age theme summary hinted at it. Polly
Bergen plays a dying woman whose grandson, a 13 year old, spends summers
with her. He is artistic, intellectual, and somewhat effeminate, and on
the brink of adolescence. His grandmother has just hired a new nurse,
who happens to be a gay male. He is the character of the title. At first he is very standoffish to the boy, and takes great care of Ms.
Bergen, but gradually he develops a rapport with him, and they become
friendly. The boy is to be sent to live in Florida after his grand-
mother dies, where he will not get a lot of attention from adults and
may be picked on by an older quite masculine boy. The movie handles
all this with humor, sensitivity, and intelligence, and has a smart
if not expected ending. Were a sex scene between the nurse (the films
director) and another gay man he meets, omitted or edited, it could
have been a mainstream PG-13 film, instead of unrated. It is very
honest, and the performances are excellent, especially the 13 year old.
I liked it far more than "Brokeback Mountain".
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