A film centers on Jimmy George, a charismatic New York actor and performance artist who leaves a hospital after a life-threatening HIV-related crisis. He begins starring in a new stage piece based on Once Upon a Time in the East, playing Helene and singing with a band. Jimmy lives with his partner Dennis, who worries that a new attraction to their British neighbor Vincent will worsen Jimmy’s compulsive behavior and endanger his recovery. Jimmy’s sister Brenda visits with her son and husband Gene, and family members become witnesses to Jimmy’s complicated health and mental state. Authorities appear cold and unsympathetic in a hospital scene.
"Malek is a performer whose style is as distinctive as those of John Malkovich or Jeff Goldblum. But it works best with a light touch in the direction and material. Things never really come together here. The Man I Love is a film about gay culture in 1980s New York, at the height of the reactionary homophobia of Reagan's America, with HIV-positive men coming to terms with their condition and with the callous bigotry of the political zeitgeist."
"Malek plays Jimmy George, a much admired and charismatic actor and performance artist in New York who has just emerged from a three-week stay in hospital after a life-threatening HIV-related crisis. Now he is starring in a new stage piece based on Andre Brassard's 1974 film Once Upon a Time in the East, playing the stormy and defiant Helene, who sings with a band. Jimmy lives in an apartment with his partner Dennis (Tom Sturridge), who has the stressful and demanding task of caring for him."
"Dennis is instantly suspicious of their hot new British neighbour Vincent (Luther Ford), who appears to be enamoured of Jimmy. A hookup between them, Dennis resentfully fears, would trigger new bouts of compulsive behaviour that would endanger what chance Jimmy has of recovery. Jimmy's sister Brenda (Rebecca Hall) comes to visit with her son and disapprovingly straitlaced husband Gene (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), and she and their parents are to be the witnesses of Jimmy's complicated and painful state of health and state of mind."
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