Garçon stupide

20042004
UnratedUnrated
1h 34m

IMDb RATING

6.1/10

1.2K

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Comedy Drama Romance

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 i... Read allThis 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 ro... Read allThis 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... Read all

IMDb RATING

6.1/10

1.2K

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
Pierre Chatagny was originally looking for a position on the film's crew, when director Lionel Baier asked him to read for the part of Loïc.

Quotes
Loïc: I don't know what I will be but I know what I won't be.
Loïc: I won't be anti-globalisation, nor march with the masses, nor cry "Kill Them", nor be a cop, nor sell out, nor be a hooligan, nor neutral, nor reasonable, nor a militant, nor a collaborator. I won't fuck everyone, nor create a family, sell ass, buy ass, have kids, fear the dark, love the dark, be a Christian, a Jew, a Buddhist, not believe in people, be like everyone, transparent, absent, not look women straight in the eye, fuck men rather than speak with them, fuck everyone to avoid loving anyone.
Loïc: I want to tell stories, Marie, my own stories. And no one will know if they are real or fantasy. I don't want to be a stupid boy. I am not a stupid boy.

Connections
Features Salamanteri (1971)

Soundtracks
L'Ile des morts
Poème symphonique, op. 29
Interprété par le Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra dirigé par Dimitri Mitropoulos
Avec l'aimable autorisation de Sony Music Entertainment AG
© 2000 Sony Classical

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Featured review

3/10

Tedious, not touching

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.

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