Supernova review: Tucci and Firth will break your heart in this meditation on dementia

Supernova review: Tucci and Firth will break your heart in this meditation on dementia

Yahoo Lifestyle - Style·2021-02-18 17:01

Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci in Supernova. (Photo: Golden Village Pictures)

Rating: R21

Length: 95 minutes

Cast: Colin Firth, Stanley Tucci, Pippa Haywood

Director: Harry Macqueen

Release date: 18 February 2021 (Singapore)

4.5 stars out of 5

Romantic drama Supernova stars Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci as an elderly gay couple dealing with the fact that one of them is slowly losing his mental faculties because of dementia.

Sam (played by Firth), a pianist, and Tusker (played by Tucci), a novelist, take a road trip across England to the Lake District on the pretext of Sam having a performance in a rural location. Sam, however, has gathered family and friends on a pitstop to reconnect with them as Tusker's condition deteriorates.

Supernova manages to put two gay characters front and centre somehow without talking about the fact that they're gay. Their friends and family simply accept them as they are. (Firth and Tucci are both 60 years old, so their characters' self-identities have long settled.)

The fact that they're a gay couple is secondary to the impact of the disease on their relationship. It’s just two people who love each other dealing with the fact that one of them has dementia. This portrayal is an admirable decision by writer-director Harry Macqueen. It humanises the characters without needing to reference the trauma that is specific to queer people. It's stellar queer representation – albeit with gay characters played by straight actors, even if they are A-list actors.

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