An overmatched star and a scarcity of eccentricity sink this hip-lit origin story from director John Krokidas.
The film is a smartly written, deeply engaging portrait of a movement just about to begin.
These shorts are breathless reminders of what queer cinema was like before Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss.
For fans of George Kuchar’s camp, Todd Haynes’s Americana, and the early work of Van Sant and John Schlesinger.