My Night with Reg (film)

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My Night with Reg
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Directed by Roger Michell
Written by Kevin Elyot (play and screenplay)
Produced bySimon Curtis
Starring David Bamber
Anthony Calf
Joe Duttine
Roger Frost
Kenneth MacDonald
John Sessions
CinematographyJohn Daly
Edited byKate Evans
Production
company
BBC
Distributed by BBC
Release date
  • 1996 (1996)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

My Night with Reg is a 1996 British film adapted from the Kevin Elyot play of the same title, and directed by Roger Michell, who had directed the play on stage. [1] [2] The film marks the beginning of Michell's career in film. [3] [4]

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Synopsis

Entirely set among London's gay community in the mid-1980s against the background of the mounting AIDS crisis, My Night with Reg follows the ups and downs of a circle of gay friends over a period of several years. One of the group, the Reg mentioned in the title, is not a character in the play but the whole plot revolves around his apparent promiscuity and the chain reaction of deception and betrayal set off by it.

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Reception

Jasper Rees wrote in The Independent "there's a good deal of all male kissing here, but it's mostly polite, puckered pecking between consenting cruisers". [5] Phil Penfold of The Press wrote "the great thing about this story is that it's not a proselytising gay drama in the way that the first post-AIDS era movies were, its intention is more to take the stigma and terror out of gay lifestyles." [6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Aragay, M.; Klein, H.; Monforte, E.; Zozaya, P. (23 April 2007). British Theatre of the 1990s: Interviews with Directors, Playwrights, Critics and Academics. Springer. ISBN   978-0-230-21073-8.
  2. ↑ Murphy, Robert (25 July 2019). Directors in British and Irish Cinema: A Reference Companion. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN   978-1-83871-533-5.
  3. ↑ "Mort du réalisateur de 'Coup de Foudre à Notting Hill' Roger Michell". RTBF (in French). Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  4. ↑ Hayward, Anthony (1 October 2021). "Roger Michell: Prolific director behind Notting Hill". The Independent .
  5. ↑ Rees, Jasper (22 February 1997). "Chalk it all up to experience". The Independent . p. 5.
  6. ↑ Penfold, Phil (15 March 1997). "John Recalls His Night With Reg". The Press . p. 11.
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