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Prick up your ears (DVD)

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Based on John Lahr’s biography of the same name and co-written by Alan Bennett, Prick Up Your Ears charts the 16-year relationship between the monstrously talented but deeply selfish playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman), author of West End farces such as Loot and What the Butler Saw, and his neurotic but nevertheless wronged lover and collaborator Kenneth Halliwell (Alfred Molina). Halliwell introduced Orton to art, literature and gay sex only to see his protégeacute; outstrip his mentor with innate and rampant talent for sexual conquest. By turns hilarious and excoriatingly painful, it’s as much a tribute to an anti-hero of our times-Orton’s ruthless frankness and anarchic mindset helped form the basis of what’s called the “queer” sensibility today–as it is a portrait of the Swinging 60s just after the reform of anti-homosexuality laws irrevocably changed society.

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