[A] much-celebrated documentary from the festival circuit.
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06/13/08
Chris & Don: A Love Story (2007)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:32
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: Chris and Don paints an affecting, enlightening portrait of a one-of-a-kind love affair.
Theatrical Release:Jun 13, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $157,417
Synopsis: A sleeper hit at the Telluride Film Festival, Chris & Don: A Love Story is the true-life story of the passionate three-decade relationship between British writer Christopher Isherwood (whose... [More]
Director: Guido Santi, Tina Mascara
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Reviews for Chris & Don: A Love Story
Top CriticWith delectable-looking home movies of the couple's travels in California and Europe, Chris and Don offers an intimate portrayal of a passionate, enduring association, as well as a social history of postwar life.
07/24/08
By examining this older/younger couple for differences of social circumstance, individual ego and personal desire that pertain to any love relationship, Santi and Mascara present a complex testament of gay experience. It’s remarkable because it’s rare.
06/11/08
It's a sentimental and loving picture, playing out as a leisurely cocktail-hour stroll through an enchanting life.
07/31/08
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
11/25/08
Primed as we are by a culture rich in both homophobia and dirty old men, we can be forgiven for anticipating a sordid cautionary tale. It’s a shock -- a happy shock -- when Chris & Don recounts a love that approaches the transcendental.
06/09/08
Top CriticSanti and Mascara are right to call their film A Love Story, because this is the portrait of a marriage as full and enviable as the greatest unions in literature.
07/18/08
A wonderfully crafted documentary about a most unusual long-term relationship
03/08/09
A celebration of love and art, whatever the stripe or medium.
06/12/08
Though a bit too conventional to perfectly reflect the unique affair at its center, Chris & Don is likely to inspire romantics of all kinds.
06/13/08
A charming, illuminating portrait of the complex and storied queer romance between Isherwood and Bachardy.
07/03/08
One of the most positive, affecting portrayals of queer romance in recent memory.
06/12/08
A great, revealing documentary; one of the best films released in 2008
02/27/09
Surprisingly, this 2007 documentary about their 34-year relationship becomes more engrossing as its focus shifts from Isherwood to Bachardy...
08/01/08
While they might have had their ups and downs, the subjects of Chris & Don are a testament to fidelity.
06/12/08
Top CriticA love unique in every respect -- nothing to sniff at and forever to be treasured.
05/05/08
visually-rich documentary
06/13/08
The documentary, made after Isherwood’s death and with Bachardy’s enthusiastic participation, is as much a love story as a chronicle of Bachardy’s maturation into a man and an artist.
10/10/08
Affecting and beautifully realized documentary.
06/13/08
Top CriticThe 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.
06/13/08
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