VOD: The Boys In The Band (2020) (dir: Joe Mantello, 2020)

"Your grapes are - how do you say - sour?"

Following the play's successful Broadway revival in 2018, this new filmed version from largely the same team comes an astonishing fifty years after the groundbreaking original movie.  The universally strong performances retain the biting delivery of the sharp dialogue, and only a minor sympathetic expansion of the classic 'birthday party in an apartment' set-up breaks the claustrophobic tension.  Whilst it remains strongly theatrical in its talk-heavy style, this version balances archness with emotion quite effectively.