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Équation à un inconnu

  • 1980
  • Unrated
  • 1h 39m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
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Équation à un inconnu (1980)
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A hot young motorcyclist cruises the city - soccer games, cafes, the petrol station - having unsatisfying sexual encounters with other lonely men.A hot young motorcyclist cruises the city - soccer games, cafes, the petrol station - having unsatisfying sexual encounters with other lonely men.A hot young motorcyclist cruises the city - soccer games, cafes, the petrol station - having unsatisfying sexual encounters with other lonely men.

  • Director
    • Francis Savel
  • Writer
    • Francis Savel
  • Stars
    • Gianfranco Longhi
    • Jean-Jacques Loupmon
    • Reinhard Montz
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    6.8/10
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    • Director
      • Francis Savel
    • Writer
      • Francis Savel
    • Stars
      • Gianfranco Longhi
      • Jean-Jacques Loupmon
      • Reinhard Montz
    • 3User reviews
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    Gianfranco Longhi
    • La figure principale
    Jean-Jacques Loupmon
    • Le footballeur brun
    Reinhard Montz
    • Le footballeur blond
    Éric Guadagnan
    • Le goal
    • (as Cédric)
    Jean Denis
    • L'arbitre
    Thierry Dufour
    • Un joueur
    Jean Noël
    • Un joueur
    Nicolas Wojnawicz
    • Un joueur
    Gabsi
    • Le junior
    Jean Magniez
    • Le mateur solitaire
    • (as John Ziegman)
    Aurélien Duguet
    • Le jeune François
    Patrick Armand
    • Le portier de l'usine
    Dow Jones
    • Un ouvrier
    Jaime Sutherland
    • L'ouvrier motard
    Jean-Marie Descamps
    • L'ouvrier blond
    Dominique Delattre
    • Le joueur de flipper
    Kamel
    • Autre joueur au flipper
    Gérard
    • Autre joueur au flipper
    • Director
      • Francis Savel
    • Writer
      • Francis Savel
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    • Trivia
      Nearly impossible to see for decades since its original release, the film was rediscovered by director Yann Gonzalez during his research for the film Un couteau dans le coeur (2018), researches he got from the director Hervé Joseph Lebrun who had made Mondo Homo 2: A Study of French Gay Porn in the '70s (2014) and who was historical advisor for Un couteau dans le coeur (2018). Yann Gonzalez was so taken with the film, he tracked down the negative in a French film lab, commissioned a new 16mm answer print, and used this to create a subtitled DCP to share the film with a broader audience.

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    6/10
    It may all be very artistic, but it's still porn
    This movie dates from 1980, in the post-sixties era when a libertine sexuality was cheered at, and just before the rise of AIDS. The purpose of filmmaker Savel was (as I understand it) to make a visually artistic movie that celebrates the male body and gay sex, in an uncensored and totally unrestrained way. He more or less succeeded. What we see is basically a gay porn movie: there is no (discernible) narrative, there is hardly any substantial dialogue, the actors are all young, angelically attractive with smooth bodies, and all action in all scenes concerns nothing else but sex (solitary, couples, groups, in bedrooms, toilets, locker rooms, or out in the open), everything pictured extremely graphical. What lifts it (slightly) above the level of common porn, is the at times beautiful photography, and the choreography of the actors, who mostly move as in slow motion.

    I would lie if I said that I didn't like looking at all this, and sure, at times I was enchanted by the almost dreamy atmosphere that gave some of the various sexual acts a surprising visual beauty. But to be honest: the feeling that prevailed after 90 minutes still was that I had watched a porn movie. Okay, an arty one, but still a porn movie. Now I would hate to be mistaken for a prude or a bigot, and I have no objection whatsoever against porn, but why this dressing up of porn as arthouse?! Who do you serve with this? The one that expects porn will be irritated by the slowness and the arty mannerisms, while the one that expects an arthouse film will be turned-off by all the graphic in-your-face sex. I would say: either make a serious movie with some kind of story, and with - if needed - whatever amount of sex that at least has to be functional to the narrative; or stick to regular porn.
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    • Release date
      • March 19, 1980 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Equation to an Unknown
    • Production company
      • Les Films du Vertbois
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 39 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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