chrissie messenger

This should have been groundbreaking and in most ways it was. Benedict Cummerbach as Vincent, gabby Hoffman as Cassie and especially McKinley Belcher 111 are unbelievably good, convincing and incredibly moving in different ways. It is a crazy, surreal script shining with promise but can’t resist the temptation to slide over into sloppy unreal sentimentality at the end. However before the end we are treated to exceptionally excruciating scenes of the homeless, the poor the drug addicts , child prostitution, boys this times,who live underground (literally) in New York in the 80s, and it is suitably harrowing as to literally give me nightmares. Of course Cummerbach is sensational but I give the crown toBelchet whose mesmerising, subtlety emotive and tellingly tragic portrait of the black gay cop in the 80s. Has earned my total respect and more. Gaby Hoffman is great too, so UnHollywood, even though she has appeared in movies since she was 4. But she did grow up in The Chelsea Hotel.

Too slow - not enough contrast. Actors good but remained mainly on a monotone. Pricilla looked too young - she looked about 12 or 13 all the way through. She was very good but not believable. Elvis was more believable - a very good performance physically but almost impossible to understand what he was saying. The huge discrepancy in their hieghts did not help the credibility of the film

Gut wrenching my tragic.. unbelievable performances, wonderful