Get On The Bus Gus

At times I thought this could be just another multi-stranded, relationship based, Noo York tragi-comedy, albeit with knobs on, but it managed to be a whole lot more. Plotted and written by the cast during impro sessions and directed by John Cameron Mitchell, it tackled the complex issues of desire, and the tangled web of dealing intimately with other people in a genuinely unique way. The explicit scenes never really threatened to overwhelm the sensitive and intelligent emotional character development, and maybe in ten years time all serious films that deal with physicality will look like this. It was a 'feel-good' movie in the best sense, in that there were no conventional happy endings for the characters, but neither were they cast into a well of desperate despair. Like real life it was a recognisably bewildering mix of both, often at the same time, and with a great soundtrack too.