Review 226: Kinsey

Kinsey is a facinating biographical drama film, intriguingly touching character study and a showcase for a  performance from star Liam Neeson.

Biology professor Alfred Kinsey (Liam Neeson) has a perfectly respectable life teaching and doing research at Indiana University along with a happy home life with his wife, Clara McMillen (Laura Linney). When he realizes that his students, many of them married and with children, still come to him with personal questions about human sexuality, he fights to begin teaching sex education courses and conducts extensive interviews about the sexual history of volunteers despite high-profile opposition.

 

Talk of human sexuality made people angry at Alfred Kinsey. When his book Sexual Behavior in the Human Male was first published in 1948, it was pratically agreed that masterbation would  or that showing a womans vagina would  He very much was a man ahead of his time.

Writer/director Bill Condon's direction is sensitive, handling the subject matter with and  the cinematography is the score by Carter Burwell is 

Peter Sarsgaard, Chris O'Donnell, John Lithgow, Tim Curry, Oliver Platt, Dylan Baker, William Sadler, Julianne Nicholson and Veronica Cartwright.

 

4/5.

 

The Anonymous Critic.