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English. Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End is a 1996 American biographical documentary film written and directed by Monte Bramer. The film is based on the life of gay writer and AIDS activist Paul Monette, who died from the disease in 1995. [1] Appearing as themselves in the film are Judith Light, Robert Desiderio, Winston Wilde, Larry ...
Brief Synopsis. A documentary on the beloved, late award-winning writer ("Borrowed Time," and "Becoming a Man") Paul Monette who, while fighting his own battle of survival with AIDS, became one of the ravaged voices for a generation of people afflicted with HIV.
3 de feb. de 1997 · Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer’s End (Docu - 16mm) Production: A Brink of Summer's End production. Produced by Lesli Klainberg. Directed, written by Monte Bramer. Crew: ...
Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End: Dirigido por Monte Bramer. Con Judith Light, Robert Desiderio, Tom Hulce, Jonathan Fried. This documentary focuses on AIDS activist, novelist and film writer and National Book Award winner Paul Monette's life, from his childhood in Massachusetts up to his life in Hollywood and diagnosis and death from AIDS.
9 de feb. de 1997 · Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer’s End The foreshortened life of a celebrated gay writer, who chronicled the impact of AIDS before succumbing to it himself in 1995, gets sympathetic and ...
Narrated by Linda Hunt, this documentary examines the life of the late author and gay rights activist Paul Monette. Born in 1945 to a well-off Massachusetts family, Monette grows up unable to accept his homosexuality, for years hiding it from his loved ones while struggling to develop as a writer. In 1978, Monette publishes his first novel, which allows him to come out to his parents.
Excerpt of Stephen Holden’s 1998 review in The New York Times: ”Go without hate, but not without rage; heal the world,” proclaimed Paul Monette, the author and gay activist who died of AIDS three years ago at the age of 49. That sentiment, at once angry and optimistic, serves as an epitaph in Monte Bramer’s admiring and extremely sad ...
