The low-key biopic of literary fraudster Lee Israel has become an LGBT cinema sleeper hit.
, the needlessly straightwashed Queen movie that refuses to acknowledge how much Freddie Mercury liked dick. So, adapted by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty from Lee Israel’s confessional memoir of the same name, affected me in an unexpected way. Like many LGBT people who’ve seen it, I was supremely moved by its stingingly poignant portrayal of queer loneliness and an imperfect queer friendship.
McCarthy’s Lee Israel is a talented writer whose career has collapsed. She has a few acclaimed biographies to her name, but her latest project -- a book about Fanny Brice, the actress and comedian who inspired-- is dismissed by her agent as unsexy and unsellable. Because Israel is also publicity-averse and socially abrasive to the point of being a “bitch”, her agent tells her, bluntly, to find another way of making money.
it’s salty, unsentimental, a bit sad. Israel and Hock become friends because they both need someone to binge-drink in the afternoon with. They become friends because they’re incredibly lonely. And they become friends because they don’t know anyone else willing to put up with them.The Diary of a Teenage Girl,Can You Ever Forgive Me?
avoids some of the most tired gay movie tropes. There’s no against-the-odds love story here. Israel is so emotionally closed off she can’t understand why her ex left her years ago, or bring herself to accept potential affection from a woman who clearly respects and likes her. There’s also no neatly concluded tragedy; Hock may be HIV positive, but this isn’t his defining characteristic and we don’t see him die. Instead, we get pitch-black quips from Israel about his failing health.
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