Welcome to The Weekend Watch, a weekly column focusing on a movie—new, old or somewhere in between, but out either in theaters or on a streaming service near you—worth catching on a cozy Friday night or a lazy Sunday morning. Comments welcome!
As we enter the 1960s with this week’s film, it may feel like The Weekend Watch’s Pride month has been heading back in time week by week, regressing to more and more closeted eras in cinema. And, while that might generally be true, our topic today—Basil Dearden’s 1961 drama Victim—is searingly ahead of its time. A righteously indignant and unrepentantly tragic attack on the British legal system that made it incredibly easy to convict and punish men who have sex with men, Victim is a thoroughly sympathetic and hard-edged noir all about blackmail and being boxed in by the law when you’ve already been boxed in all your life. You can find Victim streaming on Max, TCM and Criterion, and available to rent through Amazon.
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