I Want Your Love (18) 71 mins **
Were it not for the
explicit sex that marks this as an, ahem, offshoot of gay porn studio
NakedSword, Travis Mathews’ shrugging drama could pass for an example of that
grungy, sketchy queer cinema that emerged around the early 1990s. Its couplings
among bearded, tattooed San Franciscan hipsters prove laidback to the point of
inertia; even the threesomes are oddly half-hearted. There’s something to be said
for any adult venture employing performers who don’t resemble Tom of Finland
etchings, but for once representation isn’t in itself enough: no matter how
many erections Mathews squeezes in, any film named for Chic’s finest dancefloor achievement frankly demanded greater dramatic pulse and thrust.
I Want Your Love opens in selected cinemas from today.
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