Kinsey is a great film

Kinsey

Director: Bill Condon

Cast: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, John Lithgow, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton, Tim Curry

Cert: 18

Liam Neeson turns in a towering performance as Alfred Kinsey, the man who helped change our views on human sexuality through his controversial and enlightening research in the USA. The sorrow is that the big Ulsterman was not included in the recent Oscar nominations, though the excellent Linney was in the Best Supporting Actress category.

Condon's thoughtful and carefully-balanced account of Kinsey's life and work - it was at the University of Indiana where he first brought his team of researchers together - makes for a compelling story and a fine film which removes itself from the trap of sensationalism and is planted firmly in the authenticity of looking at what had been previously a curiously taboo and under-examined subject.

What helps make the film so good is the acting of Neeson, Linney (as Kinsey's wife) and Lithgow (as his overbearing and narrow-minded father).

Kinsey's famous book - Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male - gave America, and the world, a different slant on what we all do ... often indifferently.

Indifferent is not, however, a word to use against what is a great film.

Star Rating: 5/5