dvd of the week
A couple weeks ago, Australia’s film censor banned I Want Your Love for being too sexually explicit, and that is also probably why the Travis Mathew’s film never found a nationwide distributer in the U.S.
A gorgeously shot, naturalistic story of the last 36 hours that Jesse (the quite amazing Jesse Metzger) spends in San Francisco before moving home to Ohio, it also features a lot of gorgeously shot naturalistic sex between men.
Mathews, who went on to co-direct Interior: Leather Bar with James Franco, is clearly extremely talented, both as a writer and a director, but the film seems disjointed, as if an American Weekend was spliced together with extremely good porn. Unlike with John Cameron Mitchell’s similarly explicit and artful Shortbus, the sex isn’t needed for the plot, so it seemed to me to be prurient. (Which makes sense, to a certain extent, since the movie was produced by the porn company Naked Sword.)
Still, it’s wonderful to watch gay sexuality and gay characters treated so lovingly on film, and I recommend watching it. You can download the movie on iwantyourlovethemovie.com/
