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Bette Bourne: It Goes With the Shoes – review Bette Bourne: It Goes With the Shoes – review
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This sweet, affecting documentary profiles the eponymous actor/drag queen/activist Bette Bourne (Peter Bourne), now a grand dame in his 70s with a lavender rinse in his hair, a fetching array of oversized brooches and a great store of anecdotes.This sweet, affecting documentary profiles the eponymous actor/drag queen/activist Bette Bourne (Peter Bourne), now a grand dame in his 70s with a lavender rinse in his hair, a fetching array of oversized brooches and a great store of anecdotes.
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Prompted by co-director Mark Ravenhill, who pootles about London with him, checking out old haunts and meeting ageing friends, Bourne narrates the story of his life. It's practically a microcosm of 20th-century gay culture, covering the closet culture of the 50s, the gay liberation movement, Bourne's success with his cabaret company the Bloolips, and the arrival of Aids.Prompted by co-director Mark Ravenhill, who pootles about London with him, checking out old haunts and meeting ageing friends, Bourne narrates the story of his life. It's practically a microcosm of 20th-century gay culture, covering the closet culture of the 50s, the gay liberation movement, Bourne's success with his cabaret company the Bloolips, and the arrival of Aids.
As a documentary, it is hardly radical or ground-breaking (although the archive material is ace), but it's an engaging oral history, about a lovely person who gives good quip. The title refers to an interchange with a judge when Bourne was once on trial: Bourne was sternly asked to remove his hat in court and refused, because it "goes with the shoes".As a documentary, it is hardly radical or ground-breaking (although the archive material is ace), but it's an engaging oral history, about a lovely person who gives good quip. The title refers to an interchange with a judge when Bourne was once on trial: Bourne was sternly asked to remove his hat in court and refused, because it "goes with the shoes".