"Hot guys crossing Europe by bus... Things are definitely gonna happen." Peccadillo Pictures has debuted an official UK trailer for an amusing French gay comedy titled The Shiny Shrimps, also Les Crevettes Pailletées originally in French. Matthias Le Goff, an Olympic champion at the end of his career, makes a homophobic statement on TV. His punishment: coach "The Shiny Shrimps", a flamboyant and amateur gay water-polo team. They have only one goal in mind: to qualify for the Gay Games in Croatia where the hottest international Lgbtq athletes compete. But the guys are more interested in partying than practicing, unless Le Goff can get them in line. Nicolas Gob stars as Le Goff, with a cast including Alban Lenoir, Michaël Abiteboul, David Baïot, Romain Lancry, Roland Menou, Geoffrey Couët, Romain Brau, Félix Martinez, Maïa Quesemand, and Pierre Samuel. This reminds me of Sink or Swim, another French water sports all-male-team comedy from last year.
- 8/16/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Midway through “Paris 05:59 Théo & Hugo,” Hugo (François Nambot) mentions a favorite book, Honoré de Balzac’s “The Seamy Side of History.” He’s walking and talking with Théo (Geoffrey Couët) as the pair of young gay men search for something to eat in the middle of the night. The book’s title is the sort of detail that comes up when two people are meeting for the first time and the possibility of romance is in the air, delivered in the hope of signaling identity in a compact amount of time, an autobiographical footnote. “The Seamy Side of History” has an.
- 1/27/2017
- by Dave White
- The Wrap
The romantic two-hander has become a genre in and of itself thanks to such great films as “Before Sunrise” and “Weekend” (even the Obamas got their own version in this year’s “Southside With You”), but few ever dare to hit the erotic limits of Jacques Martineau and Olivier Ducastel’s “Paris 05:59: Theo & Hugo.” Winner of the Audience Award at the Berlin Film Festival Teddy Awards earlier this year, the film is told in real time and evolves from a 20-minute orgy into a sweet duet between two Frenchmen who have fallen in love at first sight.
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The official synopsis reads: “Theo and Hugo encounter each other in a sex club, where their overwhelming desire creates an unexpected intimacy. Leaving the club they drift down the deserted streets of nocturnal Paris, but reality suddenly confronts them in an unexpected way.
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The official synopsis reads: “Theo and Hugo encounter each other in a sex club, where their overwhelming desire creates an unexpected intimacy. Leaving the club they drift down the deserted streets of nocturnal Paris, but reality suddenly confronts them in an unexpected way.
- 12/21/2016
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
To mark the release of Theo & Hugo on 5th December, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on Blu-ray. Théo (Geoffrey Couët) and Hugo (François Nambot) encounter each other in a sex club where their overwhelming desire creates an unexpected intimacy. On leaving the club they drift down the deserted streets of nocturnal […]
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- 11/28/2016
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Unfolding in real time, the aftermath of an encounter in a gay sex club is rich with feeling and an immersive sense of the milieu
The latest drama from French collaborators Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau (The Adventures of Felix) is an intensely flavoured slice of life, salty-sweet, rich with feeling.
It offers 97 compact minutes that unfold in real time, starting from the moments when the title characters (Geoffrey Couët and François Nambot, respectively) meet in a gay sex club and get it on in explicit, unfaked detail. But when it turns out one of them is HIV positive, that sweaty bout of unprotected sex changes everything, prompting a trip to the hospital and a great deal of soul searching as they traverse the city, getting to know each other.
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The latest drama from French collaborators Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau (The Adventures of Felix) is an intensely flavoured slice of life, salty-sweet, rich with feeling.
It offers 97 compact minutes that unfold in real time, starting from the moments when the title characters (Geoffrey Couët and François Nambot, respectively) meet in a gay sex club and get it on in explicit, unfaked detail. But when it turns out one of them is HIV positive, that sweaty bout of unprotected sex changes everything, prompting a trip to the hospital and a great deal of soul searching as they traverse the city, getting to know each other.
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- 9/8/2016
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
In 2004, it looked as if Team America: World Police had hammered the last nail in the coffin for cinema’s definitive sex scene. Then, last year, in Anomalisa, Charlie Kaufman — also working with puppets — found new and interesting nuances in that most hackneyed of cinematic clichés. The opening sequence of writers-directors Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau’s latest film — where, in the red-lit basement of a Parisian sex club, two young men feel about, lock eyes and elope before walking the streets together — also breaks new ground in this regard. It’s a scene with a purpose to drop the audience into this world with apparently genuine onscreen sex, real-time shooting, and a brilliant surrealist flourish combining to make one of the most dazzling set pieces of this year’s Berlinale.
Paris 05:59 won’t return to such dizzying heights again in the scenes that follow, but the second and...
Paris 05:59 won’t return to such dizzying heights again in the scenes that follow, but the second and...
- 2/15/2016
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
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