What if you could tell if your child was going to be gay? This Faye Dunaway melodrama has all the wrong answers
Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, with a new Faye Dunaway documentary premiering on HBO, we’re revisiting 1997’s The Twilight Of The Golds, a family melodrama co-starring Dunaway with some dubious politics.When looking back at your own life and decisions, it’s easy to get consumed by the What-Ifs: What if certain things turned differently?
What if you could go back and do things over again—the right way? There’s so much potential in the infinite possibilities of these imaginary, alternate paths.Therefore, it’s no surprise that so much of storytelling revolves around answering these countless questions,—in fact, many genres thrive on it.
For example, the entire idea behind science fiction is imagining distant (or not so distant) futures in which theoretical questions are a reality.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.However, there are some What-Ifs that perhaps shouldn’t be asked.
And, in this week’s column, we look back on a movie that dared to do so anyway. Director Ross Kagan Marks’ 1997 film The Twilight Of The Golds raises the question: What if you could learn whether or not your child was gay before they were born?
