ROCK HUDSON: ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWED

UK | 2023 | COLOR | DCP | 104’ | ENGLISH

It’s a shame that nowadays practically noone seems to remember Rock Hudson. A charmer envied by men and loved by women and also Douglas Sirk’s favorite for a series of insurmountable melodramas in the ‘50s. ‘But’ he was gay. And this secret was kept airtight until the disastrous year of 1985, when Rock was dying, torn apart by AIDS. In his documentary, Stephen Kijak, through his extensive material and saucy but not sensationalist mood, explores how the tragic second chapter of a man’s life who was forced to invisibility in order to exist, transmuted into the glorious moment when the countdown of a till then invincible disease began. I.D.

DIRECTOR: Stephen Kijak
DoP: Brian Rigney Hubbard, Derek Wiesehahn
EDITOR: Claire Didier

STEPHEN KIJAK
American director, who could be named ‘a scholar of legends’ since his work includes films about Scott Walker, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, Judy Garland and Jaco Pastorius (awarded at AIFF 2015). He studied at Boston University.

FILMOGRAPHY
2023 Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
2021 Shoplifters of the World
2019 Sid & Judy
2018 If I Leave Here Tomorrow: A Film About Lynyrd Skynyrd
2016 We Are X
2015 Jaco
2015 Backstreet Boys: Show ‘Em What You’re Made Of
2010 Stones in Exile
2006 Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
2002 Cinemania
1996 Never Met Picasso