Reception Comes To DVD Nov. 15th

DVD Confidential has learned that "The Reception" is coming to DVD on November 15th. Here is the background ino on this one: "She’s straight, he’s gay and together, they live like your everyday married couple, with all the intimacy, joy and pain that implies – except, of course, they’ve never consummated their relationship, sexually speaking. Tensions, therefore, run high in “The Reception”, an absorbing and uncompromising look at a unique friendship that combines sexuality and race to form “the richest American indie I’ve seen this year,” according to The New York Sun.

Jeannette (Pamela Holden Stewart), a French woman, and Martin (Wayne Lamont Sims), a gay black artist, lead what initially seem to be splendid, idyllic lives, far away from the complexities of modern life. There is obviously great love and affection between the two, who essentially live as husband and wife. Jeannette is the life of the party, burying her sorrows and regrets in alcohol and daily confrontations. Martin, the most frequent casualty of her outbursts, is by contrast quiet and introspective, spending his time painting in his private studio and cleaning up after his partner’s destructive habits. Two people mired in loneliness driven together by the same perceived predators, men and an abiding fear of simply living, they play out their nightly saga of despair with gaiety and quiet fortitude."