The bleak film about the kidnapping and killing of a pair of same-sex couples won the Calgary Award and Teddy Award at the Berlin Film Festival and became a masterpiece of "New Queer Cinema" (featuring same-sex lovers) in the early 1990s. Its director, Tom Tom Kalin, is a senior member of two AIDS prevention organizations, and his work has three unchanging elements: homosexuality and murder. Based on real events, the director's new 2007 film is the topical Savage Grace, also known as savage elegance, about the homicide of gay mothers in London on November 11, 1972.
