1985 (2018)
Amid seemingly more difficult conditions for a young man to live in. That dramatic story began when a young man decided to return home for holidays. On the other hand, the young man is still struggling to reveal the harsh conditions of his conservative family, telling his parents that he is infected with AIDS.
13 May 1981, Texas, USA
4 November 1983, Berkeley, California, USA
February 5, 1997 in Austin, Texas, USA
10 April 1983, San Francisco, California, USA
11 September 1961, Chicago, Illinois, USA
February 9, 1999 in Houston, Texas, USA
13 June 1971, Pontiac, Michigan, USA
December 13, 2018
[I] appreciate that Tan embraces complexity, flaws, and compassion when he could have ignored them for a bow-tied catharsis.
October 25, 2018
A moving cinematic sketch of a HIV-infected man living through the height of the plague.
March 16, 2018
This is a realistic, discreet, yet exploratory film that earns its tears honestly and scrupulously.
December 12, 2018
It's a beautifully acted film. In the dark days of the epidemic it would surely have been impossible to make a drama so balanced, so compassionately attuned to everyone's feelings.
December 19, 2018
Writer-director Yen Tan, expanding a same-subject short film, takes his tale slowly, letting the drama breathe and the cast essay "being" rather than "acting".
October 26, 2018
1985 feels like a missing minor classic from the decade that preceded the rise of the so-called New Queer Cinema.
October 23, 2018
This profoundly resonant, smartly understated black-and-white film greatly benefits from more than 30 years worth of sociosexual perspective that reminds us how much has changed, yet how much else has not.
December 17, 2018
A touching film that becomes both an emotional requiem for a lost generation of gay men and a heartfelt declaration that things could only get better.
December 05, 2018
The lessons being taught in 1985 are admirable, the performances top-notch, and the filmmaking stellar.
March 16, 2018
It is a haunting elegy for a generation of gay men.
December 12, 2018
An immaculately drawn drama
June 28, 2018
All the performances are very good (though one might ask why no one has a regional accent), with stage-trained Smith providing a center of quiet intensity.
