Weekend (2011)

 
Director: Andrew Haigh
Writer: Andrew Haigh
Stars: Tom Cullen, Chris New and Laura Freeman
Genre: Drama, Romance
Year: 2011
Runtime: 81 min
Country: UK
Description:
A one-night stand that becomes something more - an unconventional love story between two young men trying to make sense of their lives. On a Friday night after hanging out with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay nightclub in Nottingham UK, alone and on the pull. Just before closing time he picks up Glen. And so begins a weekend (in bars and in bedrooms, getting drunk and taking drugs, telling life-stories and having sex) that will resonate throughout their lives.

The movie has already won several awards at International GLBT Film Festivals. Please note that www.imdb.com lists this movie as only becoming available in UK cinemas from 4 November 2011, and it also says that it is 97 minutes in length. This version is only 81 minutes long, which leads me to think that this is most likely an "early working version", and is not the final version to be released to the cinemas and eventually to DVD. This might also explain the intermittent bad contrast and audio synch problems, neither of which make it wholly unwatchable.

While the movie has already won several awards at GLBT film festivals, BE WARNED - the quality is not the greatest, but it is still watchable despite some contrast and audio-synch problems. ANOTHER WARNING: some guys might find the "strong" British accents a little difficult to understand!

I guess that the bottom line is just that you should be prepared to download this ONLY if you are willing to live with imperfection while also getting a truly SEXY gay themed movie.

Format: avi
Duration: 1:21:53
Video: 592x288, XviD, 748kbps
Audio: 93kbps






File size: 514.0 MB