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Pierre Chatagny | ... | Loïc |
Natacha Koutchoumov | ... | Marie | |
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Rui Alves | ... | Rui (as Rui Pedro Alves) |
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Khaled Khouri | ... | (as Khaled Khoury) |
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Mikele D. | ||
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Hervé D. | ||
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Joëlle Rübli | ||
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Vincent Verselle | ||
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Laurent Guido | ... | Guy in the Museum |
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Rachel Noël | ||
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Robin Harsch | ||
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Marianne Bruchez | ||
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Michel Rochat | ||
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Marlyse Bonvin | ||
Ursula Meier |
This coming-of-age drama deals with a young man, realizing who he really is and which things he will never do. Loic, 18 years old, being annoyed by his work in a chocolate factory, cruises in the internet by night to have sex with older men. His life is turned upside down by a row of events such as his friendship to a man who is not just interested in his body and the suicide of his best friend... Written by fippi2000
I don't see what justifies the rave reviews. Apart from the exposition, it came off fairly boring. Yes, Loic is enigmatic and incredibly attractive, and the film could have developed well based on that, but instead it wanders hopelessly after its first 20 minutes and becomes essentially 90% talk and 10% plot. That gets old fast. Even the few unusual "incidents" toward the end -- which I'd guess are there to provide a shock or epiphany -- seem pointlessly surreal.
The director indulges a number of disconnected fetishes for no apparent purpose. What are we supposed to make of the recurring shots of the Alps, or the distressed and always-bandaged eyebrow piercing? If these are supposed to be symbolic of something about Loic, their meanings are far too obscure. If the writers intended to make us guess at these things, that's a tired, pretentious technique that I think ends up being merely annoying, not clever.