It's been six years since Bill Condon made the phenomenal Gods
and Monsters, which explored the hushed tragedy of James Whale,
the gay director behind the 1930s horror classics Frankenstein
and Bride of Frankenstein. The immediate question that comes to
mind while watching Condon's equally phenomenal Kinsey is: what
took him so long to get back to work? How long? Linney and
Neeson Condon's biopic conveys a dramatic eloquence that all too
often eludes films of this genre. While the facts of Alfred
Kinsey's life are detailed in a more or less linear form, the
movie's overall tone takes it cue from the sexually-charged
nature of Kinsey's groundbreaking work. Kinsey, of course, was
renowned for his exploration of human sexuality, a
scientifically-driven quest that absorbed the latter half of his
life as a professor at Indiana University. Using an in-depth,
personalized interviewing approach, Kinsey and his research
assistants amassed an astonishing amount of data, which formed
the foundation of his bestselling Se