Das stürmische Leben des Joe Orton (1987)

Das stürmische Leben des Joe Orton: Directed by Stephen Frears. With Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave, Wallace Shawn. Biographer John Lahr is writing a book about playwright Joe Orton. Joe and Kenneth meet at drama school and live together for ten years as lovers and collaborators. Both want to be writers, but only one of them is successful.

“Gary Oldman plays real life British 60u0026#39;s sensation Joe Orton, the author of u0026quot;Entertaining Mr. Sloaneu0026quot;. His performance, for me, goes at the very core of a gallery of real life characters who run the gamut from A to Z and then some. From Sid Vicious to Ludwig Van Beethoven, from Lee Harvey Oswald to Joe Orton and in 2017 Winston Churchill – not to mention fictional literary characters like Count Dracula. With Joe Orton, Gary Oldman reaches some kind of mountain top. He finds innocence in this emotional and sexual misfit and he projects Ortonu0026#39;s genius with a profound flawed humanity. His tragic lover is played by another extraordinary actor, Alfred Molina – Iu0026#39;ve just seen him in u0026quot;Feudu0026quot; playing Robert Aldrich with such virtuosity that I have developed a personal relationship with Aldrich as if I knew him personally. Oldman and Molina create something weu0026#39;ve never seen before and Stephen Frears know exactly how to capture it. As if this wasnu0026#39;t enough, Vanessa Redgrave playu0026#39;s Ortonu0026#39;s agent. Even if youu0026#39;ve never heard of Joe Orton, do yourself a favor, venture into this dark and human universe.”