We are fast becoming the number one independent website for streaming coverage. August 25th, 2015 There is always going to be a degree of salacious appeal in an article examining 'sexually explicit' movies. With a bit more polishing one feels as though that story could be told more strongly, nevertheless this is a charming doc with a valuable and important story to tell. With a cast of exclusively openly-gay actors, the 2020 film stars. The play had a revival in 2018, whose cast then went on to film this movie. However, Mason’s proximity to the material perhaps makes it difficult for her to distance herself from the subject matter which leads to the story being slightly meandering and a little unfocused at times.Īt the heart of Circus of Books is a fascinating lens through which to view America’s changing relationship with the LGBTQ+ community, with the central family acting as a surrogate for ‘straight’ America. Netflix hosts the new version of The Boys in the Band.
It is this easy intimacy that marks Circus of Books out with the gentle bickering and nagging from her Mother a particular feature. The direction from Rachel Mason, especially when interviewing family members, gets closer to the story then you would usually expect from something like this. The interviews with both the family and members of the LGBTQ+ community are revealing and paint a picture of good people who are just trying their best to make a living. The notion of the most unassuming, mainstream people you would likely encounter running a bookshop filled with hardcore, gay p**n is delightfully subversive and the fact that for much of their lives even their children had very little idea what they did is fascinating. That being said, there is plenty to enjoy about Circus of Books. Told by the daughter of the family there is a sweet domestic drama to be told about a conventional American family, who despite how they make their living still have their own prejudices to deal with.īoth strands have the potential to be brilliantly interesting but sadly in trying to bring all the threads together, rather than tell one cohesive story, things get a bit muddled and neither of the elements is quite done justice to.
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The other story being told is a personal account of this very conventional American family, who by a strange series of events came to occupy a very particular space in the local LGBTQ+ community.
One is the story of how the experience of the gay community has evolved over the last 40 years, from the ’70s to the Aids epidemic and obscenity moral panic of the ’80s, through to how the birth of the internet changed the gay (and heterosexual) hook-up culture and how print material and places like C ircus of Books have changed and lost their place. There are two clear strands to Circus of Books (Netflix).