Fiery display of rhetoric: persecutors of gays are Nazis. Literally, in this case. A frenetic opening-up and pushing-around of the Martin Sherman stage play about the end of the free-and-easy decadence of Berlin between the wars, the S.S. crackdown on "deviants," and the flowering relationship of two prisoners in Dachau. Torture, humiliation, head-shaving, hard labor, sickness, slaughter, suicide -- that's entertainment! The early vision of Mick Jagger in drag, singing and swinging in a suspended hoop at a homosexual nightclub ("Find me a boy with two ocean-blue eyes"), sets a gigglingly wrong tone. With Clive Owen, Lothaire Bluteau, Ian McKellen; directed by Sean Mathias. (1997) — Duncan Shepherd
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