Chris & Don: A Love Story Reviews
Top Critic
Chris & Don opts too often for the cute over the wrenching.
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| Original Score: 3/6
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Isherwood was the far more interesting subject, but Chris & Don is all about Bachardy -- an observation that feels like opportunism more than love story.
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| Original Score: C
Orange County and Long Beach Blade
A great, revealing documentary; one of the best films released in 2008
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| Original Score: A-
Slant Magazine
One of the most positive, affecting portrayals of queer romance in recent memory.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Filmcritic.com
A wonderfully crafted documentary about a most unusual long-term relationship
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Cinematical
A real-life romance to put all those rom-com fairy tales to shame.
Windy City Times
A charming, loving portrait electrified by the inclusion of lots of terrific home movie footage. These relics of gay history are worth the rest of the movie.
Playback:stl
Long before anyone was talking about gay marriage, that's what Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy had
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| Original Score: 9/10
Slant Magazine
There are many reasons to see Chris & Don, but the best one I can think of is the chance to see Isherwood and his best friend W.H. Auden, probably the greatest poet of the twentieth century, jumping around together like middle-aged schoolboys in beguiling
Let's Not Listen
Regardless of whether you recognize the names of Christopher Isherwood or Don Bachardy, this masterful documentary draws you into the men's lives like a star-studded bedtime tale.
BrianOrndorf.com
It's a sentimental and loving picture, playing out as a leisurely cocktail-hour stroll through an enchanting life.
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| Original Score: B+
Film-Forward.com
visually-rich documentary
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| Original Score: 4/5
While they might have had their ups and downs, the subjects of Chris & Don are a testament to fidelity.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
What could have been sordid emerges instead as fiercely funny and touching. Even the animated sequences featuring the lovers the way they imagined themselves - Chris as a horse, Don as a cat - resonate with feeling and blunt truth.
| Original Score: 3/4
Chris & Don: A Love Story examines a complicated and enduring relationship that raised eyebrows even in Hollywood.
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| Original Score: 4/5
The work is a reflective hodgepodge of unnervingly 'cute' animation, reenactments, archival footage, and Bachardy's own reminiscences, spoken in the singular British accent he invented just as he invented his own unorthodox life.
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| Original Score: B+
House Next Door
A love unique in every respect -- nothing to sniff at and forever to be treasured.
