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MORN FRENCH GAY LOVE STORY
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” Unlike that film’s characters, however, Théo and Hugo have thoroughly explored each other’s bodi before openg up their nsequenc of that will e the men to fight and the film to shift to an almost clil tone as the reali of gay romance — and how Paris seeks to protect s more reckls lovers — temporarily rail the uple’s growg fatuatn. Olivier Dustel and Jacqu Marte’s “Paris 05:59 Theo and Hugo” is a French gay film that opens wh an 18-mute y scene. But today, exceptns-that-prove-the-le like “Weekend” and “Stranger by the Lake” notwhstandg, such films rarely pe cema’s gay ghetto.