I was surprised at the sophistication of East Berlin. I was told they lived drab, gray lives in rundown buildings. The teacher's apartment was large and well-done and everything looked so clean. Even the Trabis (Trabants) looked like they had been through a car wash. The nostalgia of old gay issues and more importantly, old gay "fashion" remind me how far we have come, politically and sartorially. The student/teacher issue seems current too. The end of "Les Chansons d'Amour" ("Love Songs)" 2007 has the same age differential and implies a love that will last; Coming Out takes a more realistic view of someone late to coming out falling for a young free gay boy. A movie worth seeing just for historical reasons, the view behind the Iron Curtain has never been clearer- the Wall more transparent.
Review of Coming Out
