On the Basis of Sex

On the Basis of Sex

Focus Features etc.

December 28, 2018

Historical Drama

DVD
B

This is a solid biography of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, focusing particularly on 1970, a life-changing year for her and the country.  I did feel that the story tried to juggle too many characters, losing some in the shuffle (like her students and even her son), but overall I was entertained and enlightened.  Mimi Leder directed, twenty years after the forgettable Deep Impact.

Call Me by Your Name

Call Me by Your Name
Sony Pictures Classics
January 22, 2017
Romance
DVD
C-

Two young American men meet in Italy when the older (played by Hammer) is hired as a summer assistant to the professor father of the younger.  And I guess they fall in love at some point after the first quarter hour.  James Ivory based this on the novel by André Aciman.  Luca Guadagnino directed.