This 1984 gay drama will have you swooning over young Colin Firth, Rupert Everett & Cary Elwes
Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, we’re revisiting the British boarding school drama Another Country, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.Being part of the gay community has historically always meant being an outcast.
Whether shunned or rejected socially by our peers, or through more official discriminatory laws, being labeled as an “other” just comes with the territory.
We have found ways to work with this—mostly by creating a meaningful and lively community of our own—but also by aligning ourselves with other groups that have historically also been marginalized: women, people of color, immigrants, and any other people that go against the grain of whatever the “establishment” is.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.This week, we’re taking a look at the 1984 British romantic drama Another Country, in which two young men are marginalized in their own way by their conservative and traditional boarding school: one is a fairly open gay man, and the other a very open socialist.
When the headmasters start seeing the status quo being threatened and upended by their presence, they begin taking strong measures to contain them, and the two boys find solace and strength in each other.Another Country was directed by Marek Kanievska, and written by Julian Mitchell, based on his own play of the same name.
