Description

CHRIS & DON: A LOVE STORY is the true-life story of the passionate three-decade relationship between British writer Christopher Isherwood (whose Berlin Stories was the basis for the beloved Cabaret) and American portrait painter Don Bachardy, thirty years his junior.
 
From Isherwood’s Kit-Kat-Club years in Weimar-era Germany to the couple’s first meeting on the sun-kissed beaches of 1950s Malibu, their against-all-odds saga is brought to dazzling life through beautiful, rare home movies and reminiscences from Don and many of their friends, including Leslie Caron and Liza Minnelli. With Isherwood’s exemplary status as an out-and-proud gay hero, and Bachardy’s eventual artistic triumph away from the considerable shadow of his life partner, CHRIS & DON: A LOVE STORY is above all a joyful celebration of a most extraordinary couple.

Awards & Quotes

* Best Documentary – Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival ** Best Documentary nominee – Gotham Independent Film Awards *“The rarest of documentaries: a realistic portrait of the human spirit.” —David Edelstein, New York Magazine“Tender, extremely touching…” —Stephen Holden, The New York Times“WILD APPLAUSE [Highest Rating]! Santi and Mascara are right to call their film ‘A Love Story,’ because this is the portrait of a marriage as full and enviable as the greatest unions in literature.”—San Francisco Chronicle

DVD

• • 16:9 anamorphic transfer, formatted for widescreen televisions• More of Chris and Don’s home movies, including footage from the sets of The Rose Tattoo (1955) and King Vidor’s War and Peace (1956)• Deleted sequences with Don Bachardy, including an interview on gay marriage• Deleted interviews with late actress Gloria Stuart (Titanic), filmmaker John Boorman (Point Blank), and actress Leslie Caron (Gigi)• “Don on Chris”: An 8-page printed monograph of Bachardy’s paintings of Isherwood• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired• U.S. theatrical trailer