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At age 73, writer and master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908-1999) left everything behind and moved to the USA. After his horrible childhood, youth, and maturity in London, where he was scorned, beaten, and harassed for being “effeminate” in his old age he became famous and beloved as an Englishman in New York. Nossiter’s camera follows Crisp about the streets of Manhattan, where he seems very much at home, wearing eye shadow, appearing on stage, repeating his well polished wry observations, talking to John Hurt (who played Crisp in the autobiographical TV movie, “The Naked Civil Servant”), and dining with friends. Others who know Crisp comment on him, on his life as an openly gay man with an effeminate manner, and on his complex placement in the history of gay social struggle. The portrait that emerges is of one wit and wisdom and of the importance of humour as a weapon in the struggle against oppression.