Chris & Don: A Love Story w/ Booklet

Chris & Don: A Love Story w/ Booklet DVD VIDEO DOCUMENTARY gay hero 1950s Santi Type: Movie Platform: DVD Publisher: Zeitgeist Films Released: 2009 Media: DVD CHRIS & DON: A LOVE STORY W/ BOOKLETThis film is the true story of the passionate 3-decade relationship between British writer Christopher Isherwood and American portrait painter Don Bachardy, 30 years his junior.Chris & Don is a documentary that takes the viewer on a nostalgic journey through artist Don Bachardy’s past, as he recounts his 35-year romance with author Christopher Isherwood. Ample interview footage starring Bachardy, now in his 70s, recalls his trials with Isherwood’s older, more famous friends, and his struggle to discover his own identity through portrait painting. Descriptions of how the couple endured ridicule to maintain not only a homosexual relationship but also a bond despite their 30-year age difference during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s in Hollywood, is what makes this documentary more tha