Movies

January, 1998

The Opening shot of Bent (MGM/UA) reveals Mick Jagger in drag, looking ghastly as Greta, the proprietor of a bisexual club in Berlin under Hitler. What follows is a surreal and grueling tale about the fate of gays branded in Nazi Germany. Adapted by Martin Sherman from his play (a success on London and Broadway stages some years ago), the film version is directed by Sean Mathias, with Clive Owens, Lothaire Bluteau and Brian Webber as the homosexual victims of the Holocaust era. After Webber's gr...