Bent
by Sean Mathias
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Actor: Clive Owen, Ian McKellen, Lothaire Bluteau, Mick Jagger, Nikolaj Coster-WaldauDirector: Sean Mathias
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Producer: Christian Martin
Producer: Dixie Linder
Producer: Hisami Kuroiwa
Producer: Martin Sherman
Writer: Martin Sherman
Producer: Michael Solinger
Producer: Sarah Radclyffe
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-06-03
Audience Rating: NC-17
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Bent
Movie Review: Brokeback Holocaust
Summary: 5 Stars
"Bent" is one of the most depressing films I have ever watched.If your not in a good mood,don't look at this movie.
The acting is brilliant,but for most of the film your watching rocks being moved from one pile to another,then back to the original pile,but it has to be in the story.
The train sceen is alfuw,if this really happened,these inhuman evil German Hitler animals have to be burning in hell forever.
Clive Owen's is fantastic,along with everyone else,including Mick Jagger.
Its been 24 hours since I've seen "Bent ,"and its still haunting me.This is a love story between 2 guys during the Holocaust who never touch or kiss,but still have sex together.
Summary of Bent
Renowned British stage director Sean Mathias directs Martin Sherman's "powerful and provocative" (The New York Times) screenplay about one man's struggle to maintain his dignity while imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp. Featuring exceptional performances by Lothaire Bluteau (Black Robe), Clive Owen (Gosford Park), Brian Webber, Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings: TheFellowship of the Ring) and Mick Jagger, Bent will "grab filmgoers by the heart" (Rex Reed)! Max (Owen) is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Pursued and captured, Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewishbecause in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form of human being. But it takes a forbidden relationship with an openly gay prisoner to teach Max that without the love of another, life is not worth living.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 tables turn on Max, who finds--through Horst--the strength both to keep alive indefinitely and to ultimately embrace his sexual identity.
Initially set in a war-ravaged Berlin, Bent is directed by Sean Mathias, who first directed Jude Law in Indiscretions, and he has crafted a film that reminds one of Ian McKellen's Richard III with its spare, stylized, and stark world bombed into rubble and chic theatrical disarray. There are many poignant as well as harrowing scenes, and the result is a somber work that stands as a reminder that intolerance cannot overtake individualism and love. While Bent received an NC-17 rating for depicting Berlin's decadent, anything-goes-for-a-price nightlife, MGM opted not to edit out the tone-setting prelude and pushed to preserve the film's integrity despite a rating that is itself a kind of death for any film that bears it. --Paula Nechak
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