Love and Death on Long Island
Directed by Richard Kwietniowski
Produced by Skyline Films, BBC Film
A darkly comic study of obsessive infatuation and sexual awakening in a widowed writer confronting his own identity and mortality through an impossible fixation on a young actor.
Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel, but instead finds himself watching a tacky teen sex comedy. Yet when the beautiful Ronnie Bostock appears on the movie screen, Giles finds himself caught in a whirlwind of unanswered questions about both his own sexuality and his place in late 20th-century society.
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