Andrew and Jeremy Get Married

TV documentaries are often no more than magazine articles dressed up with pictures. or they fall into the cult personality journalism trap - Nic Broomfield. Michael Moore for example. Sometimes they are SO much better. this film, directed by Don Boyd and produced by Charles Sturridge and Nick Fraser, is an example of documentary at its very best. a combination of innovative smooth film-making (albeit impressionistic at times) and very sensitive, probing storytelling. It looked ravishing and was brilliantly edited.(Kate Spankie) it worked on so many levels and i enjoyed every moment. (a bit short maybe - apparently Don Boyd shot 100 hours of footage!). i saw it on a big screen in Brussells with many other women. They loved it.

This very visual and entertaining portrait of the relationship between two very different Englishmen completely surprised me. It is a documentary film and yet it had many qualities which gave it an atmosphere of being something more scripted. Andrew and Jeremy are complicated people and they are very frank about their lives and the nature of their quirky love affair. I was never embarrassed and was fascinated by the problems they had to deal with. It was also a beautiful portrait of England now without the usual clichés. I felt privileged and involved. How rare for a documentary. And there was no irritating commentary. A brilliant entertaining film which I recommend to everybody.