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Saturday, July 19th

Upstairs at 8:30 PM

In Bloom
 
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In Bloom

(2013, 87 min)

Country: U.S.

Director: Chris Michael Birkmeier

Studio: TLA Releasing

Language: English

SYNOPSIS:

Two young men find their seemingly great relationship threatened when temptations and unease begin to pull them apart. A knowing, powerful look at modern gay love.


REVIEW:

Possibly the single best depiction of a gay male relationship this year, In Bloom is a warm, funny, intelligent, sharply-written, painfully honest, well-acted drama and first feature film by promising writer/director Chris Michael Birkmeier.

During one hot Chicago summer, two young men fall in love. Blond, pot-smoking and pot-dealing Kurt (Kyle Wigent), and cute but moody grocery store clerk Paul Tanner Rittenhouse) begin a committed relationship. Best pals, lovers and roommates, they have amazing rapport and, on the surface, their relationship is strong and intimate. But when rich kid Kevin (Adam Fane) enters the scene with designs on Kurt, subtle fissures, a mutual unease, and an unsatisfied longing for what they don’t have are exposed, threatening their love.

The two leads, Kyle Wigent and Tanner Rittenhouse, are perfectly matched in this richly textured examination of gay male relations today. Its story of a doomed tumultuous love will be painfully familiar for many. What André Téchiné's Wild Reeds did to audiences in 1994, In Bloom will do to you in 2013.

-- Raymond Murray, TLA Video (http://www.TLAVideo.com)