by Quentin Curtis
Gay themes are also explored in Rose Troche's comedy Bedrooms and Hallways, a droll but also perceptive view of homo- and heterosexual love, through the lives of a group of housemates. The film revolves around Kevin McKidd's Leo, a carpenter who falls, at a men's group, for an Irish hunk who it turns out is going out with Leo's first ever girlfriend (Jennifer Ehle). The movie scores humorously, more through oblique hits (Simon Callow's amusingly earnest leader of the men's group) than in set-pieces. But its treatment of sexuality, gay or otherwise, is humane rather than partisan.
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