I’m pleased to see that Cinema Nova is still screening the Australian movie ‘Holding the Man’ twice each day. I saw it about six weeks ago and expected that it would have finished by now.
I don’t know much about homosexual relationships or the gay scene during the AIDS ‘epidemic’ but certainly the attention to detail in depicting late 70s-1980s Melbourne is exquisite- right down to the ‘Web of Life’ textbook in the locker room at Xavier. I can only assume that its fidelity in other areas is just as sound. I hadn’t seen either of the lead actors before (which may say more about me than them), but the supporting cast is a veritable ‘who’s-who’: Anthony La Paglia, Sarah Snook, Kerry Fox, Guy Pearce and even Geoffrey Rush pops up as well. Go to see it while it’s still on.
The Resident Judge of Port Phillip 