This film is suppose to be about a touching glimpse of faded beauty, a world of glamour and sex, of attraction and desire but instead it’s a film about boredom and cold sterile loveless arousal and a man who’s older than he thought possible and poor for the first time in years.   

The plot centres around Pierre, a one time rent boy sex worker and his attempts to write a book. He’s blocked and can’t write so he embarks on a series of visits to see old friends, meeting some new ones along the way and eventually having one random encounter that leads him in a different but not wholly unexpected direction.

So far so good, it’s in French which is fine and all the actors are fit ,sexy and attractive, not surprising as they mostly all play hustlers or rent boys. It’s a film that’s obsessed with money and sex and that overcomes any need to make your feel any contact with the main characters, in fact  I loathed the lot of them, and their whinge back biting so called gossipy friendships. I found it depressing and boring and I have to be honest and say I fell asleep half way through the film.

I felt the director was trying to be clever and the over elaborate (English subtitled) translation was slightly weird sometimes, are broken down French hookers ever that erudite?

This film left me feeling a little sad & depressed, but not for any of the right reasons. There’s no redemption in this film and it’s a tough one to make it to the end of, but then again, that’s what the  film is about.

If you like your smoky French films about rent boys and drag queens gritty, hard nosed and sad, then add it to your film collection.



Run Time: 108 minutes

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