#evening 2007

[aivilo]

can you guys tell i kinda like english actor hugh michael horace dancy known for his role in the popular american thriller series hannibal (2013-2015)?

[butcherprongs]

if i had a penny for every time hugh dancy played a bisexual who ‘needs a haircut’ and thought he was in love with a brunette woman whilst actually in love with an older man with dirty brown hair who helps him with his mental health problems that he really makes worse, then i would have two pennies. which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

[moonheart1313]

I wrote a Martin x Buddy fic! (I needed something nice to happen for both these boys)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66898969

[lowridingjunkiegirl]

I WOULDVE DRANK A TON OF ALCOHOL WITH YOU, AND KEPT YOU ALIVE FOREVER!

[smindersonfan]

The Hannibal Extended Universe is getting out of hand à la not finding any Ann/Buddy Evening fanfiction on AO3.

[lyledebeast]

Pride Month Movie 11: Evening

This 2007 film by Lajos Koltai is only tangentially LGBTQ, but it's one of my all-time favorites. It was co-written by Susan Minot, on whose novel it is based, and Michael Cunningham, a gay writer whose own novel is the basis for Stephen Daldry's The Hours. The two films share a remarkable percentage of their casts: Toni Collette, Meryl Streep, Eileen Atkins, and Claire Danes. I usually make a double-feature movie night of the two.

Also, Hugh Dancy plays the alcoholic bisexual son of a wealthy New England family in the 1960s. He dies (I know you're shocked!), but he haunts the rest of the narrative in the way only drunken queers who die young can.

I think the queerest thing about it, though, is it's artful skewering of the idea that heterosexual marriage is the ultimate pathway to happiness.

"I married Ralph Haverford, the best man (at the wedding). You don't think I took it literally?"

The one character who is presented as a good husband has no lines I could decipher without subtitles. He is literally background noise.

"You wouldn't say [there's no such thing as a mistake] if you'd met my husbands."

One of the husbands is described only as having good hair. He appears in exactly one flashback scene, just long enough for the audience to verify that for ourselves.

And finally, my favorite.

"Harris was just a boy, dear. An unusually attractive one, I'll admit. But your mother had a whole life."

The last line is spoken by a friend of Ann, the protagonist, whose wedding Ann sang at when they were both young and in love with Harris. But it's not Harris who shows up for Ann when she's on her deathbed forty years later. He appears in a couple of fever dreams, which is how Ann's daughters know his name. When one of them mentions him to Lyla, she says my favorite line.

The allos hate this movie. Good. They have tens of thousands of movies about themselves. This one is mine!

[reidgif]

hugh dancy in evening 2007

[lexys]

HUGH DANCY as BUDDY WITTENBORN

Evening (2007) dir. Lajos Koltai