Unable to watch Call Me By Your Name, I watched Parting Glances again. I had seen it in the 1980's when they showed it at the university. I was surprised how well I remembered it.
The first movie to deal with AIDS, made in 1984, released in '86, (Call Me By Your Name was set in '83.) About gay yuppies in New York.
Michael's boyfriend Robert works for a medical group and is going to work on assignment in Africa, Michael has been visiting and caring for his ex-boyfriend, Nick, who has AIDS. It dawns on Michael the real reason Robert is leaving.
The director, Bill Sherwood, died of AIDS in 1990. This was his only movie.
Made for $310 thousand dollars (about $750 thousand today), filmed in 16mm.
Available on Fandor.
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