BEDROOMS & HALLWAYS
96 minutes, 15
In recent years, a succession of romantic comedies about groovy, middle-youth types living in fashionable parts of London has tackled one of the most pressing questions of our age: how do you know if the person you fancy is really "the one"? Although Bedrooms & Hallways, directed by Rose Troche, is another film of this sort, it at least asks a slightly different question: how do you find "the one" if you can't even be sure whether he or she will be . . . well, a he or a she? Kevin McKidd plays a gay man who develops a crush on a heterosexual (James Purefoy). It so happens that Purefoy feels like experimenting, so he abandons his girlfriend (Jennifer Ehle) for McKidd. But guess what happens when McKidd meets Ehle? Unsurprisingly, the film has no real interest in the angst that an uncertain sexuality can entail, but within this cosy genre, any film that acknowledges the fluidity of sexual identities offers what most of the characters in Troche's movie are seeking: a break from the old routine.
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