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BENT (1997)

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With: Mick Jagger and Clive Owen

C+

By Lisa Schwarzbaum

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW

Martin Sherman's brutal, effectively depressing 1979 stage play about a love affair between two men (Lothaire Bluteau and Clive Owen) imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp has not aged well: What was shocking 18 years ago now languishes in kitsch and bathos in a way even director Sean Mathias' spare, highly styled screen adaptation can't overcome. Watch for a flash of rock glamour from Mick Jagger as a nightclub-owning drag queen.

Posted Dec 05, 1997

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