The screenplay to this film must be one of the best in the last ten years. I seriously can’t think of a better one. Tony Kushner adapts (if you must) the film from the two-part play of the same name. Frankly, after seeing the premier of Millennium Approaches over ten years ago in New York I was doubtful if any filmed presentation would work. And certainly after HBO butchered it by airing it in separate hour-long segments I was especially discouraged. But I bought the six hour-long film and was utterly transfixed.
The film concerns a group of people connected by the blight of the AIDS epidemic during the Reagan-era 1980s (when people were still talking openly about it). It’s a distinctively blunt take on the national political scene at the time and a moving portrait of American relationships in crisis – and how they are continually in crisis.
No one should miss this, even if it’s a single viewing (and you don’t happen to agree with Kushner’s perspective).
by Marlin Tyree | Source: Warner/HBO Home Video DVD
14 Feb 2007 6:44 PM | Comments (1)
Love Tony Kushner’s work. And I saw a performance of this in London a few years back, it brought more to the text whereas the film version excels in its visual aesthetic.
Andrew Eglinton
15 February 2007
3:16 AM
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