Sundance hit The Miseducation of Cameron Post is the first of two films about gay conversion this year and with its unusual female perspective, it might end up as the most important
From Truman Capote biopics to Robin Hood adaptations to period magician mysteries, Hollywood is accustomed to films coming along in accidentally duelling pairs. Gay conversion therapy, however, is one of the unlikelier subjects we’ve seen for movie twinning: a grim, once-niche concern being dragged into the spotlight for mainstream shaming. We have yet to lay eyes on Boy Erased, Joel Edgerton’s adaptation of Garrard Conley’s memoir of being pushed into a gay conversion program by his fundamentalist Baptist father: with a November release date and an all-star cast running the gamut from Lucas Hedges to Nicole Kidman to queer-pop waif Troye Sivan, it’s the gloss-finish, awards-baiting half of the pair, as well as the...
From Truman Capote biopics to Robin Hood adaptations to period magician mysteries, Hollywood is accustomed to films coming along in accidentally duelling pairs. Gay conversion therapy, however, is one of the unlikelier subjects we’ve seen for movie twinning: a grim, once-niche concern being dragged into the spotlight for mainstream shaming. We have yet to lay eyes on Boy Erased, Joel Edgerton’s adaptation of Garrard Conley’s memoir of being pushed into a gay conversion program by his fundamentalist Baptist father: with a November release date and an all-star cast running the gamut from Lucas Hedges to Nicole Kidman to queer-pop waif Troye Sivan, it’s the gloss-finish, awards-baiting half of the pair, as well as the...
- 8/1/2018
- by Guy Lodge
- The Guardian - Film News
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