In-laws on the down low.The Reception * Written and directed by John G. Young * Strand Releasing A long-overdue follow-up feature from John G. Young (1996's Parallel Sons), this deceptively compact but unquantifiable little film shines on numerous levels with its smoldering smol·der also smoul·der intr.v. smol·dered, smol·der·ing, smol·ders 1. To burn with little smoke and no flame. 2. love story, engrossing engrossing, in English law, practice of acquiring a monopoly of goods in order to sell them at an inflated price. The offense was ordinarily limited to monopolies of foods. Related practices were forestalling, i.e. performances, and wealth of social observations. The scenario finds two white women, Jeanette and her daughter Sierra, meet-bag at the mother's country home in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of State after a long and bitter separation. Jeanette lives there with Martin, a black gay artist who willingly offers the lonely woman companionship in exchange for a work space and getaway from the world. Enter Sierra with new husband Andrew, a handsome black attorney. Tensions flare as the women revisit re·vis·it tr.v. re·vis·it·ed, re·vis·it·ing, re·vis·its To visit again. n. A second or repeated visit. re past hurts and compare the men in their lives, while the men develop an intense sexual attraction Noun 1. sexual attraction - attractiveness on the basis of sexual desire attractiveness, attraction - the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts; "her personality held a strange attraction for him" . The convolutions that follow provide some of the most daring cinematic statements in contemporary American gay film. The women's class privilege, racial assumptions, and sexual frustrations all come under examination, as do the men's denial and reclamation of their desire, personal power, and right to love each other. The Reception boldly dramatizes the inherent dilemmas and struggles of love between black men, intensifying the already steamy sexiness. Somebody please give this filmmaker a budget--10 years is too long to wait for his next statement. |
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