Director of the soon-to-be-released festival and critical favorite Love Is Strange and last year's amazing Keep the Lights On, Ira Sachs brought his first film to TIGLFF in the late 1990’s. THE DELTA focuses on a white 17-year-old boy whose surface straightness is a mask for a restless infatuation with men in a world of gay cruising and peep-show sex. After the easygoing Lincoln Bloom (Shayne Gray) meets a poor Vietnamese immigrant, Minh (Thang Chan), son of a black GI, at an all-night movie h...
Director of the soon-to-be-released festival and critical favorite Love Is Strange and last year's amazing Keep the Lights On, Ira Sachs brought his first film to TIGLFF in the late 1990’s. THE DELTA focuses on a white 17-year-old boy whose surface straightness is a mask for a restless infatuation with men in a world of gay cruising and peep-show sex. After the easygoing Lincoln Bloom (Shayne Gray) meets a poor Vietnamese immigrant, Minh (Thang Chan), son of a black GI, at an all-night movie house, they take a playful, spur of the moment trip down the Mississippi in Lincoln’s father’s cabin cruiser. Their impossible love, with playful moments such as a swim at an isolated riverbank mud hole, is a poignantly twisted take on “Huckleberry Finn.” A moody tale that winds its way toward a tragic conclusion, THE DELTA has been reported to “hold your attention in the same way that snakes are said to hypnotize their prey.”
Dir. Ira Sachs, USA, 1997, 85 min.
Check out the press:
“Dazzling…one of the Year’s Best”
- Gary Morris, Bay Area Reporter
“Sachs has created in The Delta an achingly poignant portrait of alienation and longing so evocative that it is poetic in its impact.”
- Kevin Thomas, LA Times
“Compelling…confounds expectations with its freshness, urgency, and poignancy”
- The Times of London
