Rating of
3/4
Has Depth
Franz Patrick - wrote on 10/27/08
This is another good European gay film that exceeded my expectations because of a script that’s alive. Cyrille Thouvenin is very convincing as a twentysomething that refuses to come out to his parents because of two things: he’s afraid that his parents will not accept him and in turn he cannot accept himself. Thouvenin has great chemistry with Stéphan Guérin-Tillié as the argricultural researcher. I just wish that the filmmakers would’ve gotten rid of the slow parts in the second half of the film. It should have focused more on a character’s decision that lets everything out in the open. I wanted to know more about Thouvenin’s parents, why they despise the idea of homosexuality so much. The parents being old-fashioned is simply not enough of a good reason. I also wanted to see Thouvenin and Guérin-Tillié’s straight male friends. Surely they have at least one. Shortcomings like that made some of the characters a bit one-dimensional. I like that the ending doesn’t neatly tie everything up; that we’re leaving the characters when their lives are just beginning. Most LGBT American films don’t even come close to this film’s performance and script so I’m very glad to have seen this picture.
