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EIGHTEEN
Available From the 27th June 2006
REVIEW
Telling two distinctly different, but related, stories, sophomore filmmaker Richard Bell (Two
Brothers) has crafted an accomplished drama about forgiveness, love and family.
Assembling an outstanding cast of actors with queer credentials including Thea Gill ("Queer
as Folk"), Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming and Canadian actor Brendan Fletcher (The Five
Senses) Bell will gain attention for his new film with serious themes.
Pip (Anthony) is a teenager (looking a little worse for wear at eighteen) who is wandering
the streets with a huge chip on his shoulders. On his birthday, his Dad tracks him down
and gives him a gift of a tape recorder. Needing cash for essentials, like cheap booze, Pip
hocks the gift, but as he walks out the door the shopkeeper offers him the tape from the
machine. On the tape is Pip's grandfather's (told by Ian McKellen) story of WWII bravery
and gay lust – and this is the second story in the film. When Pip is alone he turns on the
recorder and we enter the world of the European front and two lost soldiers in Nazi
territory. The parallels in the two tales bring a historical perspective to a story of a lost
youth and ultimately it is his grandfather's story that brings cohesion to the young man's
life.
Pip makes alliances with three characters in his search for solid ground. The first is a gay
street hustler Clark (Spongale) whose hardened life is awoken by Pip. Pip picks up a
girlfriend Jenny (Pope) who shows him that love is not just and abstract emotion. And most
crucially is Father Chris (Cumming) a priest who finally gets to the core of what's eating Pip.
Fusing two stories into one cohesive film is always tricky and Bell has succeeded at that.
The acting is all first-rate and that's what propels this complex film to its dramatic
conclusion. Holding the whole film together is a unique symphonic score composed by
Bramwell Tovey and performed by the Vancouver Symphony. Open your heart and soul to
this unique and tender story of anger and forgiveness.
Scott Cranin
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