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| Director Paul Oremland infuses a traditional genre with a massive
shot of energy in this backstage love story set alternately in the coke-snorting, pill-popping, 100 bpm world of the London gay club scene and the bleak world of Blackpool and the British North. Bound to set in motion your romantic ideals, Like It Is pits Craig, bare-knuckle boxer and Northern emigre, as neophyte to the bed-bouncing London scene where he satisfies rising musical producer Matt's fantasies for rough trade. Matt finds in Craig someone who does not "dress the same, smell the same, and shag the same" as his London cronies, but he is too slow to see the rebellious maturity behind the young Matt's violent tantrums. Worth a watch if only to see the fabulously bitchy popstar, Paula, reduced to tears when the tabloids publish her birth certificate, to catch Roger Daltrey's extended cameo as a heartless gay music mogul, or to graze on the ample sight of lanky British lads, this flick is a light-hearted but eminently satisfying tale of love and conflict between urban veneer and gay salt-of-the-earth. |
| Screened with Like It Is is Pierre Salvadori's
short, A Moment from the French HIV-themed series Love Is For Reinventing. Salvadori's dexterous camera takes us through a point-of-view experience of the sexual moment, complete with the ethically charged anxieties that are part-and-parcel of love-making in the era of HIV. |
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