The Naked Civil Servant (1975, UK)

John Hurt plays Quentin Crisp, an English effeminate and exhibitionist homosexual. Crisp was a real person, living for most of his life when homosexuality was a very serious criminal offence.

Crisp narrates direct to camera, and the film is entertaining and a good portrayal or life in those primitive times in the first part of the twentieth century. Its only drawback is that the theme is so intense that there is no relief from it.

In the early part of his life, Crisp is suddenly exposed to other homosexuals of a flamboyant character, at a time when he did not know that they existed. He goes to a cafe with them, and he discovers that they are prostitutes. Their appearance was ambiguous rather than feminine.

There is just one brief sequence on a bus when Crisp is dressed in a fully feminine way.

HF July 2007

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