Garçon stupide (2004)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Lionel Baier

Writers:

Lionel Baier (writer)
Laurent Guido (writer)

Release Date:

13 September 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

This coming-of-age drama deals with a young man, realizing who he really is and which things he will never do...

Plot Keywords:

Male Frontal Nudity | Gay | Nudity | Coming Out | Dildo

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Pierre Chatagny	...	Loïc
Natacha Koutchoumov	...	Marie
Rui Pedro Alves	...	Rui
Khaled Khouri		(as Khaled Khoury)
Mikele D.
Hervé D.
Joëlle Rübli
Vincent Verselle
Laurent Guido	...	Guy in the Museum
Rachel Noël
Robin Harsch
Marianne Bruchez
Michel Rochat
Marlyse Bonvin
Ursula Meier

Also Known As:

Stupid Boy (International: English title)

Runtime:

94 min

Country:

France | Switzerland

Language:

French | Portuguese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | Dolby SR

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Australia:R | Germany:16 | USA:Unrated | Netherlands:16 | Switzerland:18 (canton of Vaud)

Filming Locations:

Lausanne, Canton de Vaud, Switzerland

Company:

Saga-Productions

Movie Connections:

Features La salamandre (1971)

Baier has a genius

Director Lionel Baier has created a work of freshness and imagination and truth. The few melodramatic clichés he employs stand out only for their rarity. In choosing Pierre Chatagny to focus his camera upon, Baier has chosen brilliantly. (Baier who plays an older friend, Lionel, to Chatagny's Loic, is glimpsed just once. In truth the director is a young man of 28 with much great work ahead of him on the evidence of this production).

Though the character and, I would say, Mr. Chatagny at 20, is self-absorbed and vain as 20 year-old boys tend to be, his natural beauty reveals itself in every movement of his eyes and his isolation in the stark awkwardness of his stance. He is not hard to watch or gawk at for 90 minutes.

Loic,a horny Swiss youngster who has notched a lot of casual nocturnal sex, envies his sisterly girlfriend's enjoyable personal relations with her boyfriend, distrusts Lionel's apparent disinterest in immediate sexual gratification and feels hopeless in the presence of an adored soccer player's fatherly love for his three year-old son. Luoc is by turns angry and despairing and anxious.He has begun to suspect it doesn't always boil down to just sex but he doesn't know if he has anything more than sex to give or take and if there is a place in him where there is more he has no idea how to reach it. But after much pain and damage the first unexpected crack of sunlight in the wall of Luoc's frustration comes through beautiful and true. Jim Smith