What My Love Is For

I like this film a lot, and I only regret it did not last a little longer. I thought of a sort of Scott Fitzgerald scenario and within a few minutes ' The Great Gatsby ' is mentioned. The dialogue is good, and literate and Philip Embry did that most difficult of things being both the lead actor and director. A handsome man with a handsome script. The story starts off in Virginia and his dead grandmother leaves the Embry character a house in the East Hamptons. He is a writer and he heads to New York and adventure. He meets another young man, who is not exactly Mister Right but a sort of attachment starts. No spoilers except to say the sexuality between them was not coy, and refreshingly open and honest. All the cast was good and I must single out Bianca Rutigliano as a very believable loving friend who would not run out on him. Shamefully I am the only second person to review. I expected quite a few more. It is a film that will linger in my mind. More visibility is needed for good LGBT themed films like this.

The first impulse was to define it as nice. And, indeed, it is a nice film. Beautiful intentions, fair chosen themes, reasonable acting. And an awful script.

It is obvious than the purpose was very ambitious but the result remains confuse , quasi chaotic and compromises , in great manner, the decent first part. And when the noble intentions are only on paper, the cliches sounds the solution.

I liked the try to create a Philip in manner of American ordinary guy out of mediocre people around him, with precise dream to be writer and a conflict fresh to fresh against his mother, attracted by a sort of version of Gatsby and, at final, defining his priorities. Unfortunatelly, not Philip Embury is the man for this role.

Marshall Taylor Thurman gives regular traits to his Hunter but difficult to say than the result is more than pretty woden.

Bianca Rutigliano and Yvonne Erikson are that kind of supporting actors saving a lot from a story becoming more and more confuse.

David Maloney offers a correct work but his character seems an embroidery of cliches.

In short, with some tea spoon indulgence, nice. But the potential was more than generous.