C

Isherwood was the far more interesting subject, but Chris & Don is all about Bachardy -- an observation that feels like opportunism more than love story.

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08/01/08

3/4

Despite an age difference of 30 years, their connection was immediately electric; their first kiss, the story goes, broke a window.

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08/01/08

N/A

Surprisingly, this 2007 documentary about their 34-year relationship becomes more engrossing as its focus shifts from Isherwood to Bachardy...

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08/01/08

B+

It's a sentimental and loving picture, playing out as a leisurely cocktail-hour stroll through an enchanting life.

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07/31/08

3.5/4

There's a bit of Pygmalion meets The Portrait of Dorian Gray to it, and yet part of the documentary's slyness involves probing those aspects while never losing sight of the pain and glories of any emotional relationship that lasts as long as

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07/31/08

3.5/4

There's a bit of Pygmalion meets The Portrait of Dorian Gray to it, and yet part of the documentary's slyness involves probing those aspects while never losing sight of the pain and glories of any emotional relationship that lasts as long as

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07/31/08

N/A

A charming, loving portrait electrified by the inclusion of lots of terrific home movie footage. These relics of gay history are worth the rest of the movie.

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07/27/08

N/A

With delectable-looking home movies of the couple's travels in California and Europe, Chris and Don offers an intimate portrayal of a passionate, enduring association, as well as a social history of postwar life.

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07/24/08

N/A

Regardless of whether you recognize the names of Christopher Isherwood or Don Bachardy, this masterful documentary draws you into the men's lives like a star-studded bedtime tale.

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07/24/08

4/4

Santi and Mascara are right to call their film A Love Story, because this is the portrait of a marriage as full and enviable as the greatest unions in literature.

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07/18/08

4/5

It’s an extraordinary film that gay audiences will find particularly salient, no doubt, yet audiences with an affinity for the writings of Isherwood or nostalgia for the golden age of Hollywood may find it intriguing as well.

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07/07/08

N/A

A charming, illuminating portrait of the complex and storied queer romance between Isherwood and Bachardy.

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07/03/08

N/A

The subtitle of the film is 'A Love Story.' The picture makes the worn term fresh, moving.

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06/29/08

B+

Isherwood and Bachardy's story features cameos by a galaxy of literary and cinema stars, but few are as impressive as the protagonists, who defied the conventions of their times by living openly as a happy, well-adjusted couple.

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06/19/08

B+

The work is a reflective hodgepodge of unnervingly 'cute' animation, reenactments, archival footage, and Bachardy's own reminiscences, spoken in the singular British accent he invented just as he invented his own unorthodox life.

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06/13/08

N/A

[A] much-celebrated documentary from the festival circuit.

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06/13/08

3/4

What could have been sordid emerges instead as fiercely funny and touching. Even the animated sequences featuring the lovers the way they imagined themselves — Chris as a horse, Don as a cat — resonate with feeling and blunt truth.

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06/13/08

3/4

Affecting and beautifully realized documentary.

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06/13/08

3/4

Though a bit too conventional to perfectly reflect the unique affair at its center, Chris & Don is likely to inspire romantics of all kinds.

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06/13/08