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This dramatic story begins with a series of powerful dramas, where a young man is confined to the house for holidays and struggles to reveal his harsh circumstances to his family, who still can not imagine the different circumstances. The young man found no solution but to tell his parents that he had AIDS, which might make things take a different turn.
This profoundly resonant, smartly understated black-and-white film greatly benefits from more than 30 years worth of sociosexual perspective that reminds us how much has changed, yet how much else has not.
Writer-director Yen Tan, expanding a same-subject short film, takes his tale slowly, letting the drama breathe and the cast essay "being" rather than "acting".
It's a beautifully acted film. In the dark days of the epidemic it would surely have been impossible to make a drama so balanced, so compassionately attuned to everyone's feelings.
All the performances are very good (though one might ask why no one has a regional accent), with stage-trained Smith providing a center of quiet intensity.