The glummest element is the young servant boy (Wang Xiaoxiao) who acts as our dramatic peephole on the action.

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Renowned for his sharp wit and flamboyant clothes, Crisp became a gay icon with his 1968 book The Naked Civil Servant, the story of a young homosexual man in the less tolerant Britain of the 1930s.

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