The Dying Gaul
by Craig Lucas
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Actor: Campbell Scott, Faith Jefferies, Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard, Ryan MillerDirector: Craig Lucas
Brand: CLARKSON,PATRICIA
Producer: Campbell Scott
Writer: Craig Lucas
Producer: David Newman
Producer: George VanBuskirk
Producer: Joel Posner
Producer: John A. Machione
Producer: Joseph Caruso
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-03-21
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of The Dying Gaul
DVD Review: Betrayal, lies, and selling one's soul for money....
Summary: 4 Stars
The uneasy alliance between commerce, art, lust and love lies at the heart of Craig Lucas's mordantly pessimistic The Dying Gaul. Featuring three totally unsympathetic characters that viewers will love to hate, this movie is about what happens when people choose money and desire over artistic integrity, and ultimately sells out for the greater dollar.
Robert (Peter Sarsgaard) is trying to sell his script of The Dying Gaul. It's a tragic love story; a semi-autobiographical tale about AIDS based on his relationship with his now-dead agent and partner Malcolm (Bill Camp). Jeffrey (Campbell Scott) is a suave and slick bottom line-driven producer interested in Robert's (Peter Sarsgaard) script. But to make the project commercially viable, Jeffrey demands that Robert change the central couple from a homosexual to heterosexual duo.
Robert is initially appalled that Robert would suggest such a thing, but Robert lays it on the line, saying that Americans won't go to see a movie about g*y people, and that "America hates g*y people." Jettisoning his integrity, Robert eventually sells out and does as Jeffrey asks, in the process pocketing $1 million and establishing an intimate friendship with Jeffrey and his failed screenwriter and bored wife Elaine (Patricia Clarkson), whose spends most of her life in her multi-million dollar, palatial modernist home.
Whilst Robert attends glamorous industry luncheons put on by the wealthy couple, Jeffrey begins to put the moves on the young screenwriter. And after learning that Robert frequents chat rooms, Elaine strikes up an in-disguise online conversation with her new friend and makes a devastating discovery, igniting a desire for retribution, and leading to a dangerous game of cyberspace cat-and-mouse in which Elaine poses as the back-from-the-dead spirit of Malcolm.
As the three-way friendship begins to collapse in on itself, the less than savory personalities come to the forefront, highlighting their penchant for lies and duplicity. Mr. Lucas and his director of photography, Bobby Bukowski, create stark compositions of cool blue and hot red light, the ice and fire that lurk within the characters. His protagonists make some tough, sad choices, their façade of moneyed contentment shattered by their manipulative and calculating games.
The acting is superlative, with Scott, Clarkson and Sarsgaard turning in tour de force performances as the embattled trio. Sarsgaard is touching and fully engaged, Scott is astonishingly duplicitous playing a man of power, influence and a happy-go-lucky lack of conscience; and as Elaine, Clarkson makes every glimmer of sympathy, doubt and steely resolve register.
The Dying Gaul offers no easy answers on the problems of compromised principles, the price of greed and the closeted nature of Hollywood, and in fact sometimes the movie may be a little too complicated and heavy handed for its own good. But as the tragic climax comes, and the characters reach their final denouement, we see that people will ultimately do crazy things when afflicted by loss, betrayal and rage. Mike Leonard March 06.
Description of The Dying Gaul
A gay screenwriter becomes involved with a studio executive (and unknowingly his wife), as the executive tries to convince him to rewrite a homosexual relationship.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 1-AUG-2006
Media Type: DVD
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