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Don Boyd’s feature-length documentary, Andrew and Jeremy Get Married, is one of the first UK films to be announced by this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.

The film presents a year in the private lives of two wildly different Englishmen. They meet in a bar and, despite a considerable age gap and stark social differences, fall in love and begin sharing their lives together, primarily in Jeremy’s ramshackle, quasi-Bohemian Chelsea flat. The film picks up their story five years into their relationship and culminates with their wedding on May 1st 2004.

The couple’s bizarre social life is hectic: successions of dinner parties peopled with the rich and famous, literary events, readings of TS Eliot in seaside resorts, gay picnics in Regent’s Park. This social whirl is intermingled with Andy’s solitary visits to his one-bedroom council flat in south London, where he can nurse his deep anxieties about his compatibility and suitability within Jeremy’s ‘patrician’ world. There he also links up with the people who were part of his youth – all of them as strange as some of Andy’s Bohemian friends.

"There is quiet poetry in this film’s accumulation of personal recollection and observation" writes the Toronto programmer, "peppered with the everyday eccentricities of the English and touching, wry music. Soon we know these two immensely likeable, complex and sensitive men in a way that is rare in movies, which is to say we begin to care deeply about them and their relationship. To watch Andrew and Jeremy exchange vows, perched as precariously as any nearly-wed couple, is captivating and moving. So honest and familiar is the delicate sense of feeling conveyed here, it almost slips by that theirs is, even now, also a political story."

Published on www.britfilms.com August 6, 2004

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