You read the plot outline for this and think, "oh, good, finally a realistic gay movie that tries to make people aware of what gay people go through a lot of the time". At least that's what I thought when I read it. But soon as I began watching the film I felt like some big con was pulled on me, having been taken in by the sparkly text and histrionics surrounding this film. As much as I love France, I do have a love it or hate it relationship with their film industry, given their rather avant-grade nature, which works on a lot of occasions and doesn't work on a lot of others. And so I found it very hard to stay awake during this film, and I have a very long attention span mind you, and can usually stand slow-paced films. But this film isn't even slow paced, it has NO pace at all. And that isn't even the worst thing about it
For one, I found myself wanting to buy a plane ticket to France for a third time to see if hot gay French guys really are only attracted to the male equivalent of a plain jane, because Cedric and Matthieu seem to have a very high sex drive and half of their scenes together feature them either naked or having just finished sex. The one outright sex scene is not hit at all and reminded me of the sex scene in the 2003 disasterpiece "The Room" (except at least I could laugh at now poorly done that scene was). Thankfully we do get to see their dongs, but the scenes are too darkly lit. But it's not just the sex that's painful to watch. The stiffness (no pun intended) of the acting and dialogue (at least the 10 minutes of dialogue there is) just painful- in fact, almost all the actors here seem to be just in it for the paycheck and mumble through their lines as if French is their fourth language and given the script, or lack of, it is hard to blame them. Stephane Rideau tries to lighten things up a bit and save it, but even he can't. He's the only actor here who appears to be enjoying what he's doing
But generally also just how boring the film is, is what the film suffers from most. I mean do we need to watch 5 minutes of a family eating spaghetti in silence? Do we need 5 minutes if a cat eating spaghetti? Do we need two minutes of the lead actor rubbing his penis? Do we need 5 minutes off he lead actor staring off into space? Seriously if you cut down all the fat, the film would probably be 30 minutes long. Believe me, the emperor truly has no clothes
I realize not a whole lot of movies do the gay community justice, but there sure are a lot better gay movies out there. True that a lot of them are formulaic rubbish but even then a lot of them Are a lot better than this
For one, I found myself wanting to buy a plane ticket to France for a third time to see if hot gay French guys really are only attracted to the male equivalent of a plain jane, because Cedric and Matthieu seem to have a very high sex drive and half of their scenes together feature them either naked or having just finished sex. The one outright sex scene is not hit at all and reminded me of the sex scene in the 2003 disasterpiece "The Room" (except at least I could laugh at now poorly done that scene was). Thankfully we do get to see their dongs, but the scenes are too darkly lit. But it's not just the sex that's painful to watch. The stiffness (no pun intended) of the acting and dialogue (at least the 10 minutes of dialogue there is) just painful- in fact, almost all the actors here seem to be just in it for the paycheck and mumble through their lines as if French is their fourth language and given the script, or lack of, it is hard to blame them. Stephane Rideau tries to lighten things up a bit and save it, but even he can't. He's the only actor here who appears to be enjoying what he's doing
But generally also just how boring the film is, is what the film suffers from most. I mean do we need to watch 5 minutes of a family eating spaghetti in silence? Do we need 5 minutes if a cat eating spaghetti? Do we need two minutes of the lead actor rubbing his penis? Do we need 5 minutes off he lead actor staring off into space? Seriously if you cut down all the fat, the film would probably be 30 minutes long. Believe me, the emperor truly has no clothes
I realize not a whole lot of movies do the gay community justice, but there sure are a lot better gay movies out there. True that a lot of them are formulaic rubbish but even then a lot of them Are a lot better than this