Chris & Don. A Love Story

Calvin A. Tripp in his book The Homoxexual Matrix comments that gay couples are better than others at spanning differences. This story certainly shows that. When Christopher Isherwood met Don Bachardy he was 46 and Don was 16; he was... Full review

It looks like we will finally be able to watch this masterpiece documentary in theaters as distributor Zeitgeist has picked up the Miami Festival winner for a limited release. Produced by Guido Santi and Tina Mascara, a team of longtime... Full review

For how unusual and "scandalous" the love story portrayed in this movie can be (or rather, could have been at the time the facts took place), the way it is narrated by the film-making and producing duo of Guido Santi... Full review

Presented at the Telluride Film Festival, this is one of the most touching, romantic and cinematically innovative movies I've seen in a long time. First of all, let's not forget this is a documentary, with all the visual and narrative... Full review

Archival footage is mostly excellent.... ... Full Review

Directed by Tina Mascara and Guido Santi (who sound more like a Vegas magic act), "Chris & Don" is bathed in warm waters of affection, advancing on this love story with an ear for endearment, not judgmental deconstruction. However, there was a force in his life more powerful than writing, even breathing at times: Don Bachardy. ... Full Review

Directed by Tina Mascara and Guido Santi (who sound more like a Vegas magic act), "Chris & Don" is bathed in warm waters of affection, advancing on this love story with an ear for endearment, not judgmental deconstruction. However, there was a force in his life more powerful than writing, even breathing at times: Don Bachardy. ... Full Review

Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy made an odd couple when they first met. The 30-year difference between an upper-crust British writer and a young Californian glamour-hound was just one of the difficulties facing the pair in the 1950s, yet the... ... Full Article

Chris & Don: A Love Story " is a fascinating documentary, one much better than its rather flat and unimaginative title. What an extraordinary and unusual love story it turns out, by its end, to be, that of the long,... ... Full Article

Chris was British writer Christopher Isherwood, whose Berlin Stories became the basis for Cabaret ; Don is artist Don Bachardy, more than 30 years Isherwood's junior, who was a teenage movie-star-struck Californian in the early '50s when he met the... ... Full Article

In 1964 Christopher Isherwood published A Single Man , a novel about a homosexual man and his state of spirit after his lover dies. Now comes Chris & Don , a documentary film about Isherwood's lover and his state of... ... Full Article