When 21-year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV+ family bonds are tested. The family decides that 11-year-old Marcel, the youngest, is ...
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Title: Close to Leo (TV Movie 2002)
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Cast
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Yaniss Lespert | ... | Marcel |
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Pierre Mignard | ... | Léo |
| Marie Bunel | ... | Mother | |
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Rodolphe Pauly | ... | Tristan |
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Jérémie Lippmann | ... | Pierrot |
| Dominic Gould | ... | Father | |
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Louis Gonzales | ... | Yvan |
| Joana Preiss | ... | Yvan's Mother | |
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Alex Beaupain | ... | (as Alexandre Beaupain) |
| Assaad Bouab | ... | Aymeric | |
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Sylvie Contant | ||
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Louis Gonzalez | ||
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Julien Honoré | ||
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Laurent Honoré | ||
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Anna Kerivel | ||
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When 21-year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV+ family bonds are tested. The family decides that 11-year-old Marcel, the youngest, is too young to understand, and the family agrees to keep the unsettling news from him. Marcel overhears enough to understand that something amiss with Leo and when the two travel to Paris together, Marcel confronts Leo with what he suspects. Written by Havan_IronOak@Bigfoot.com
I found this film to be a fascinating study of a family in crisis. When Leo, the oldest announces that he is HIV+ the reactions of the family members alone and with each other was touching and yet strange.
I have never seen a family that was as physically demonstrative as this one; nor one as likely to shout at each other. I didn't understand why the family felt that youngest couldn't deal with the news but once past that difficult I found this a thoroughly moving film.