sissydude sinema: christopher & his kind (2011)
BBC’s adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s biographical novel of the same name. The ‘divinely decadent’ Berlin cabaret scene is in full swing when a young and wide-eyed Christopher Isherwood (Matt Smith) arrives in the city to stay with his close friend and occasional lover, the poet WH Auden. 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 as he forges an identity and place for himself amidst the chaos of 1930s Berlin.
CHRISTOPHER AND HIS KIND is a memoir. I don’t believe that Isherwood or his publishers or anyone connected to the publication of the book or Isherwood himself ever referred to it as a novel, nor has any aspect of it been characterized in the press as a novel It is non-fiction.
July 28, 2012 at 5:05 pm
Doctor Who, is that you?
July 29, 2012 at 4:48 am
Thank you Thank you Thank you for posting/sharing this! I had the loveliest morning in bed watching it. Really enjoyed. Also thanks for Carol Burnett fun! xoxo
July 29, 2012 at 3:45 pm