Hours gay

In this regular column, we’ll look at depictions of queers in cinema and ask, Was It Good For The Gays? Here, we examine Stephen Daldry’s Oscar-winning drama, The Hours.

Queerness in The Hours stems from currents of desire which alter the characters’ relationships to the lives they’ve chosen. The most evident strain of queerness in the film is a pattern of spontaneous kisses between women (and once between a lesbian and a gay man), unplanned and unacknowledged after the fact, but altering internal.