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Bent 

Year: 1997
Country: UK
Director: Sean Mathias
Starring: Clive Owen, Lothaire Bluteau, Ian McKellen, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Mick Jagger.
Synopsis: The film adaptation of Martin Sherman's ground-breaking play focuses on the relationship between two gay men imprisoned in a Nazi detention center, where even the guards and guns can't stop love.
Quick review: Max (Clive Owen) enjoys life in Nazi Germany, even with little money. He parties all night and sleeps around on his dancer boyfriend. He's good looking, and he knows it. But all of that comes to an end the night he brings home a German soldier for sex. The boyfriend is angry with jealousy, and soon the SS is pounding down the door looking for their wayward soldier. Max and the dancer make a run for it, but where can they go? If they go back home, they will certainly be arrrested. They don't have the money to get out of the country. It isn't long before they are picked up and shipped off to one of Germany's concentration camps. It is estimated about 100,000 gay men suffered that fate. On the train to their prison, the guards decide to beat the crap out of the dancer. Max is warned by another man not to show any interest, or love, toward his lover. Doing so will mean death. In the end, Max must beat his lover to death and rape a Jewish girl to prove to the soldiers that he is not gay. He avoids the pink triangle but must wear the yellow star. Max develops a friendship with the man who warned him on the train, Horst, who is gay. Once in prison, over time, the two men fall in love despite never being allowed to touch each other physically. There is a lot to like about this film. The scenes of Berlin gay nightlife at the start are great, althought seeing Mick Jaggar in drag takes a little getting use to. Once they reach the prison it is hard to avoid the tedium that is prison life. The director tries to display this quickly, but it is still too long. And it's difficult to construct a love story where the two characters are not allowed to ever touch one another. Gay actor Ian McKellen plays Max's gay uncle.
 

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