As another reviewer said, I too am interested in LGBT cinema, but I am not willing to acquiesce to ANY film that features LGBT themes, situations, and people. A quality film is important, too. This film had a seemingly interesting premise, five people (four gay men and one straight woman) are in a high-rise Parisian apartment, dealing with their upset over relationships each of them has had with a man who is secluded in another room of the apartment. Each of the players enter the room individually, while the remaining cast remains in the apartment, drinking champaign, making apple slices, passing around chocolate, and eventually when the food runs out, eating fried sardines. It seems the upset has to do with each person's humiliation and/or discovery that the relationship they each had with "the man who shall not be named" wasn't equal in that they each fell in love, while the other man was faking it.
From THAT premise, we have a filmed stage play filled with angst, oh, so much angst! The person in the other room, (tied up or something, we never find out) is the receiver of each of the players one by one going into the room alone with the man and coming out some time later. NOTHING about what happens in the room is revealed, as it's one of their "rules" for the evening. Meanwhile, they each reveal fantasies to each other or their various perverse (their word) desires. At the end, which someone opined should take your breath away, is yet ANOTHER soliloquy as the sun comes up over Paris.
There is no genius in not fleshing out the story. There is no mystery to any of these characters. I'd say they were pretentious, but they don't even rise to that level. They're young, but WAY too old to be dealing with whatever they're dealing with in this angst filled way. MOVING ON may have been an option! WHAT exactly did this "MAN" do to each of them? We never find out. Yawn.
I can't in good faith recommend this. It's ultimately boring and pointless. I learned nothing. The characters learned nothing. I don't see the point of this film.
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