The film is lifted straight from the stage play without too much adaptation to the screen, so some of the scenes have an unreal, "stagey" quality. To add to that unreality, at the time the story is set, the gay boy would have had it kicked out of him in the playground. Being queer was even less tolerated then than it is now, so the mincing doesn't "read" right. There's a discord between the nostalgic 60's feel and the open gay-ness that jars throughout.
The film was, I thought, only OK. It's perhaps better viewed as a film for TV (I felt it wasn't worth paying cinema prices to go and see)
The film is lifted straight from the stage play without too much adaptation to the screen, so some of the scenes have an unreal, "stagey" quality. To add to that unreality, at the time the story is set, the gay boy would have had it kicked out of him in the playground. Being queer was even less tolerated then than it is now, so the mincing doesn't "read" right. There's a discord between the nostalgic 60's feel and the open gay-ness that jars throughout.
The film was, I thought, only OK. It's perhaps better viewed as a film for TV (I felt it wasn't worth paying cinema prices to go and see)