YAOI PRETTY: Dr. Who Kissing a Boy? (VIDEO)

This is an excerpt from the upcoming 6/28/11 DVD release of Christopher and His Kind starring Dr. Who star Matt Smith. Here's a synopsis of the movie:

In this film adapted from the classic Christopher Isherwood book, Christopher and His Kind, [Christopher] escapes repressive English society and his suffocating relationship with his mother, Kathleen, for the decadent – and politically unstable – world of Thirties Berlin.

The hedonistic Berlin cabaret scene is in full swing when a young and wide-eyed Christopher Isherwood arrives in the city, unable to speak a word of German. To Isherwood's reserved English sensibility, the city's thriving gay subculture is thrilling and intoxicating. But Christopher soon finds himself heartbroken after the failure of a hopeless love affair and so sets out on a process of self-discovery…

Matt Smith stars as Christopher Isherwood; Lindsay Duncan as his mother, Kathleen; Imogen Poots as Jean Ross, an aspiring actress and singer who provided Christopher with the inspiration for the Sally Bowles character of Cabaret fame; Toby Jones as Gerald Hamilton, a peculiar man who provided the inspiration for the title character in the celebrated Isherwood novel, Mr. Norris Changes Trains; Pip Carter as Wystan Auden, the famous poet with a droll sense of humour who persuaded Christopher to join him in Berlin; and Douglas Booth as Heinz, a street cleaner who Christopher meets and falls in love with during his time in Berlin.

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~Jennifer LeBlanc

4 Comments

Aerliss May 26, 2011 at 1:23 AM

This was rather good, though not fantastic… and has a wee bit more than kissing in it! It’s quite… melancholy. If you like happy endings this one’s not for you. I’m very happy that the Beeb are getting more and more brave with this sort of thing (thanks in part, I think, to their collaborations with HBO). Hoping to see more from them.

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Jennifer LeBlanc AKA Asami's Girl Reply:
May 26th, 2011 at 1:27 AM
I find the foreign flicks I am drawn too are usually melancholy or down right tragic. I’m looking forward to seeing this one for sure. It’s about time I can see a movie with some full frontal that ISN’T a chick.

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Aerliss Reply:
May 26th, 2011 at 10:15 AM
I don’t remember any FFN, but I live in Scotland and there is a good chance the puritanical government we have made them cut it out… or I was on the loo. Lots of semi naked and butt scenes though XD

Have you been watching Spartacus? Epic amounts of MFFN in that! Only a very small amount of gay sex, especially when compared to the het scenes, sheesh. Hopefully the gap will be closed a little in the next season. MOAR BUTT SEX!

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corkscrew May 26, 2011 at 1:05 PM

love the english bl flicks… way better than american ones usually …ie Latter Days…ugh terrible… i guess that kind of goes for american flicks in general much prefer overseas ones. Thanks for the movie info.

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