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Come Undone

Original title: Presque rien
  • 20002000
  • UnratedUnrated
  • 1h 40m
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6.7/10
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Come Undone (2000)
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Mathieu, 18, spends the summer at his mother's summer house, in Brittany. On the beach, he meets Cédric, a boy his age. A love-story begins between the two boys.Mathieu, 18, spends the summer at his mother's summer house, in Brittany. On the beach, he meets Cédric, a boy his age. A love-story begins between the two boys.Mathieu, 18, spends the summer at his mother's summer house, in Brittany. On the beach, he meets Cédric, a boy his age. A love-story begins between the two boys.
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    • Sébastien Lifshitz
    • Sébastien Lifshitz(screenplay)
    • Stéphane Bouquet(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Jérémie Elkaïm
    • Stéphane Rideau
    • Marie Matheron
    • Sébastien Lifshitz
    • Sébastien Lifshitz(screenplay)
    • Stéphane Bouquet(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Jérémie Elkaïm
    • Stéphane Rideau
    • Marie Matheron
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 58User reviews
    • 24Critic reviews
    • 68Metascore
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    Jérémie Elkaïm and Stéphane Rideau in Come Undone (2000)
    Jérémie Elkaïm and Stéphane Rideau in Come Undone (2000)
    Jérémie Elkaïm and Stéphane Rideau in Come Undone (2000)
    Jérémie Elkaïm and Stéphane Rideau in Come Undone (2000)
    Jérémie Elkaïm and Dominique Reymond in Come Undone (2000)
    Marie Matheron in Come Undone (2000)
    Jérémie Elkaïm and Nils Öhlund in Come Undone (2000)
    Stéphane Rideau in Come Undone (2000)
    Jérémie Elkaïm and Laetitia Legrix in Come Undone (2000)
    Jérémie Elkaïm and Stéphane Rideau in Come Undone (2000)
    Jérémie Elkaïm and Stéphane Rideau in Come Undone (2000)
    Jérémie Elkaïm and Stéphane Rideau in Come Undone (2000)

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    Jérémie Elkaïm
    Jérémie Elkaïm
    • Mathieu
    • (as Jeremie Elkaïm)
    Stéphane Rideau
    • Cédric
    • (as Stephane Rideau)
    Marie Matheron
    Marie Matheron
    • Annick
    Dominique Reymond
    • La mère
    Laetitia Legrix
    Laetitia Legrix
    • Sarah
    Nils Öhlund
    • Pierre
    Réjane Kerdaffrec
    • La psychiatre
    • (as Rejane Kerdaffrec)
    Guy Houssier
    • Le père de Cédric
    Violeta Ferrer
    • La mère de Pierre
    Robert Darmel
    • Le patron du café
    Charline Levaque
    • L'aide soignante
    Sarah Reyjasse
    • La vendeuse de gaufres
    Eric Savin
    Eric Savin
    • Le copain d'Annick
    Gildas Chotard
    • Le videur
    Maxence Rabret
    • Le petit garçon de la plage
    Michel Angely
    Jean-Louis Aoustin
    Jean Arrighi
      • Sébastien Lifshitz
      • Sébastien Lifshitz(screenplay) (story)
      • Stéphane Bouquet(screenplay) (story)
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    • Quotes

      Cédric: [at the beach] Hey, Mathieu.

      Mathieu: Please go away.

      Cédric: Why?

      Mathieu: So they don't see us together.

      Cédric: Are you ashamed or what?

      Mathieu: No, I just don't want any trouble.

      Cédric: What trouble?

      Mathieu: Can't you just leave?

      Cédric: You think I'm stupid?

      Mathieu: Just fuck off!

      Cédric: What, fuck off?

    • Soundtracks
      Wise Mans Blues
      Written by Perry Blake and Glenn Garrett

      Performed by Perry Blake

      From Perry Blake's album "Still Life"

      Courtesy of Sony - ATV Music Publishing France

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    6/10
    Well-intentioned story of sexual awakening
    PRESQUE RIEN

    (USA: Come Undone /UK: Almost Nothing)

    Aspect ratio: 1.85:1

    Sound format: Dolby Digital

    While visiting his sick mother in Brittany during summer recess, a teenage boy (Jérémie Elkaïm) falls in love with a local youth (Stéphane Rideau), but their relationship falters as Elkaïm is cut adrift from all that was once familiar to him, with near-tragic consequences.

    Sébastien Lifshitz's intimate drama chronicles the sexual awakening of a naive teenager over the course of an idyllic summer, recounted in piecemeal fashion as the director cuts abruptly between timeframes, from Elkaïm and Rideau's love affair to the former's subsequent hospitalization following an off-screen suicide attempt, rendered 'naturalistic' by hand-held camera-work and some improvized dialogue exchanges in key scenes. The results are confusing, to say the least: Just as the boys begin to strike out from their families and forge a life for themselves, Elkaïm slips into depression (why?) and appears to reject Rideau (why?), after which he goes looking for him again, only to find solace in unexpected quarters.

    Anyone hoping for a rose-tinted love story will come away feeling more than a little disappointed, though Lifshitz refuses to compromise the sexual aspects of his own screenplay (co-written with Stéphane Bouqet): Elkaïm and Rideau are completely nude in several sequences, and there's a memorable, full-on sex session amongst the sand dunes which should satisfy all but the most ardent porn-watcher. But the boys' attachment is complicated by their relationship with their respective families, especially Elkaïm, who feels unable to declare his burgeoning sexuality because of a recent tragedy which has driven his father away and confined his mother to her sick-bed. Sad, complex and not a little frustrating, the movie works its magic in quiet ways, but it's a little too cold and dispassionate to satisfy all tastes.

    Nicely produced on a modest budget, the film also stars Dominique Reymond, Marie Matheron and Laetitia Legrix as the three women in Elkaïm's life (mother, aunt and sister, respectively), along with Nils Ohlund as one of Rideau's former boyfriends, who figures heavily in the narrative's closing stages. The two leads are fine in difficult roles, and both have become iconic figures in European gay cinema: Rideau starred in such well-regarded Queer movies as WILD REEDS (1994), FULL SPEED (1996), TRANSFIXED (1997), SITCOM (1998) and THREE DANCING SLAVES (2003), while Elkaïm - who looks like a Bel Ami porn beauty - also appears in the gay-themed drama YOU'LL GET OVER IT (2002) as the love object of handsome Julien Baumgartner (SEXY BOYS). Director Lifshitz made his feature debut with the French TV production LES TERRES FROIDES (1999) following a series of short films with Queer themes, and his latest entry is WILD SIDE (2004), another perceptive exploration of omnisexual angst.

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      • June 7, 2000 (France)
      • France
      • Belgium
      • French
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      • Pornichet, Loire-Atlantique, France
    • Production companies
      • Lancelot Films
      • Man's Films
      • Arte France Cinéma
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      • Dolby Digital

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