Surprisingly, this 2007 documentary about their 34-year relationship becomes more engrossing as its focus shifts from Isherwood to Bachardy...
Comment
08/01/08
Chris & Don: A Love Story (2007)
100
%
Tomatometer
How does the Tomatometer work 
Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:14
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.8/10
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
Get This Movie
Rent DVD
Click on the "ADD" button to put this movie into your Netflix queue.
Buy DVD
Reviews for Chris & Don: A Love Story
1 - 14 (sorted by date)
Top CriticThere's a bit of Pygmalion meets The Portrait of Dorian Gray to it, and yet part of the documentary's slyness involves probing those aspects while never losing sight of the pain and glories of any emotional relationship that lasts as long as
07/31/08
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
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
Top CriticThe subtitle of the film is 'A Love Story.' The picture makes the worn term fresh, moving.
06/29/08
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
Top CriticChris & Don: A Love Story examines a complicated and enduring relationship that raised eyebrows even in Hollywood.
06/13/08
Top Critic[A] much-celebrated documentary from the festival circuit.
06/13/08
Top CriticWhat 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.
06/13/08
Top CriticAffecting and beautifully realized documentary.
06/13/08
Top CriticThough 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
Top CriticWhile they might have had their ups and downs, the subjects of Chris & Don are a testament to fidelity.
06/12/08
Top CriticChris & Don: A Love Story does what a good documentary should. It informs the mind and broadens the horizon while never losing its entertainment value.
06/11/08
Top CriticPrimed 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 Critic1 - 14 (sorted by date)
What’s Hot On RT
Fresh Links
Featured
History of Disney Animation 
MSN Movies offers a little background on the success of Disney Animation.
90 Years of Screen Vampires
TIME takes a look back at the history of vampires on film.
Virtuoso Vistas of Lovely Bones
Techland examines the visual splendor of Peter Jackson's upcoming film.
Recent Headlines as TV Movies
AOL put together a list of 10 recent news items that would be perfect as TV Movies.
Promos
Follow RT on Twitter
Get the latest Tomatometer updates on upcoming movies!
IGN RSS Feeds