Shown in New York City (Walter Reade) as part of series "Independents Night!" April 3, 1997. Shown in Los Angeles (American Cinematheque) as part of series "The Alternative Screen: A Forum For Independent Film Exhibition and Beyond." February 13, 1997. Shown at Sundance Film Festival (in competition) in Park City, Utah January 16-26, 1997. Shown at San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival June 20-29, 1997. Shown at New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival June 5-15, 1997. Released in United States Winter February 6, 1998īroadcast in USA over Cinemax as part of series "Reel Life" August 14, 1997.Īwarded best documentary at the 1997 San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. Released in United States on Video March 15, 1999 Released in United States February 6, 1998 Winner of the Audience Award in the documentary category at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival. Monette's moving history is just such a fragment for future generations, a touchstone reference to a tragic time that we cannot allow to be erased.Nominated for a 1997 Distinguished Achievement Award by the International Documentary Association. ``A gay man seeks his history in mythic fragments, random as blocks of stone in the ruins covered in Greek characters, gradually being erased in the summer rain,'' the author writes of a trip to Greece he and Horwitz took shortly before the diagnosis. gay elite, Horwitz was no typical AIDS patient: Monette maneuvered him into various experimental programs (he was the first AIDS patient west of the Mississippi to have access to AZT), and the firsthand glimpse of the ``netherworld of the sick,'' negotiating the byzantine route to the next ``magic bullet'' offers vivid confirmation of the human cost of the government's initial policy of informed neglect. Affluent and exceptionally well connected in the L.A. Despite its universal resonances, the book is perhaps most valuable as a vital addition to the literature of the AIDS epidemic. Monette brings to the narrative a poet's eye for the telling image or metaphor, and makes this far more than a simple compendium of medical disasters: the memoir transcends the particulars of the AIDS epidemic to stand as an eloquent testimonial to the power of love and the devastation of loss, the courage of the ill and the anger, fear and dedication of their loved ones. Poet and novelist Monette (Love Alone: 18 Elegies for Rog) applies admirable candor and control to the task of chronicling the suffering endured in the months between the diagnosis and death of the man with whom he had spent over 10 years. Struggling to be, or at least to imitate, a straight man, through Ivy League halls of. Wrenching in its detail, this account of the author's final two years with his companion and ``beloved friend'' Roger Horwitz, who died of AIDS in 1986, personalizes the epidemic's appalling statistics with heartbreaking clarity. : A child of the 1950s from a small New England town, 'perfect Paul' earns straight A's and shines in social and literary pursuits, all the while keeping a secret - from himself and the rest of the world.
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