Gods and Monsters (Pride Season)
Pride Season
Double Bill James Whale
Gods and Monsters
USA 1998 | Bill Condon | vostDE | 105' | 35mm | Cast : Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave
► Best Adapted Screenplay, Oscars 1999
The last days of James Whale, a gay British expat in L.A. who directed Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. The arrival of a handsome gardener will change his daily routine.
« An extraordinarily graceful film about desire, aging, and the creative harnessing of personal pain into art (low and high), which is, of course, what a good chunk of moviemaking is always about. An imaginative meditation, on art and life, of uncommon sensitivity. » (Entertainment Weekly)
« Condon’s remarkable achievement is matched by McKellen. He etches a mesmerizing portrait of Whale, a piss-poor mining-town boy with the vision to create himself as a figure of urbane wit, the better to help him cope with a POW camp during World War and the torments of being a has-been in Hollywood. It’s Whale’s loneliness and the courage of his art that Clayton responds to. » (Rolling Stone)
► Tickets : A special double-bill ticket is available for €5. Individual tickets are also available at the usual prices.
