Réalisation:
Michael SamuelsScénario:
Patrick GalePhotographie:
Wojciech SzepelMusique:
Dan JonesActeurs·trices:
Julian Morris, Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, David Gyasi, Laura Carmichael, Gay Hamilton, James McArdle, Joanna Vanderham, Drew Edwards (plus)Résumés(1)
Two love stories, 60 years apart, chart the challenges and huge change to gay lives from the Second World War to the present day. In 1944, British Army Captain Michael Berryman meets war artist Thomas March in Southern Italy while chaos reigns all around them. Despite having a young fiancé, Flora, waiting at home for him, straight-laced Michael finds himself falling for Thomas' bohemian charms. In 2017, an ageing Flora looks on as her vet grandson, Adam, tentatively forms a relationship with his client Steve in a more accepting world. But while the external obstacles have fallen away, a minefield of internalised issues and dangerous temptations still line the road to happiness. (HBO Europe)
(plus)Critiques (1)
Man in an Orange Shirt catches the eye at first glance with its theme and the way the narrative branches out into two temporal planes with a gap of many years between them. Being gay in the 1940s and 50s wasn't exactly easy, but even in this day and age that preaches tolerance, things aren't always rosy. You can't deny the film its made-for-TV look, and I was a little disappointed it doesn’t go more in depth, and that some places in the plot were left unfinished.
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