This documentary about two of the deep south’s most celebrated gay writers fails to illuminate their sometimes troubled friendship
A hushed tone of slightly maudlin reverence is the keynote of this well-meaning but somehow pointless dual-bio documentary from Lisa Immordino Vreeland about Tennessee Williams and Truman Capote: the two gay writers from the south who had colossal status in America’s artistic and celebrity circles in the 1950s and 60s when literature was taken very seriously and when homosexuality could be hidden in plain sight as part of the artistic temperament.
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