Movie theaters remain closed but virtual cinemas and streaming services still continue to produce exciting new content to keep LGBT viewers entertained at a socially responsible distance. “The Half Of It” is a thoroughly charming coming-of-age story written and directed by out filmmaker Alice Wu.
Wu, who was recently awarded the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival, draws inspiration from a wide variety of sources, including her own coming out story, Aristophanes’ allegory about the search for love in Plato’s “Symposium” (which may also be familiar to LGBT viewers from “The Origins of Love” number in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”), and the legendary tale of the swashbuckling Cyrano de Bergerac.
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