French Gay Comg of Age Movie ‘I Am Jonas’ is a Perfect Summer Rpe om Dpair: WATCH - #GAYNRD

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• STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘I AM JONAS’ ON NETFLIX, AN UNRSTATED FRENCH DRAMA ABOUT A GAY MAN’S TROUBLED LIFE
• FRENCH GAY COMG OF AGE MOVIE ‘I AM JONAS’ IS A PERFECT SUMMER RPE OM DPAIR: WATCH

STREAM IT OR SKIP IT: ‘I AM JONAS’ ON NETFLIX, AN UNRSTATED FRENCH DRAMA ABOUT A GAY MAN’S TROUBLED LIFE

I Am Jonas is one of those: a dark, atmospheric French drama I only stumbled upon bee I was sperately lookg for somethg I haven’t watched Netflix’s LGBT tegory film, a lightful slow-burn, picts Jonas at two very different pots his life – first as an unhappy, aimls gay man livg the cy, and also as an optimistic teenager explorg his sexualy for the first time wh Nathan, a wild, reee new kid. You n feel a ep sense of nnectn between them, wh a subtext of how hard and difficult such a romance will be a homophobic 90s French high school. Sudnly we’re back to young Jonas on his first day of nth gra, a rather shy and rerved boy who’s picked on by his peers for beg gay (or at least prumed gay).

Between the gay bar “Boys”, Jonas’ boyiend and later hookup, Jonas’ e of Grdr, and of urse the flashbacks that show the buddg romance between Jonas and Nathan – our two leads are most certaly gay. Michael (he/him) is the gay Wrer & Content Manager behd Sce g out as a teenager, Michael has veloped a fascatn for Queer films. In I AM JONAS, Jonas has jt been arrted for gettg to a fight a gay nightclub.

Wrer/director Christophe Charrier’s film is a character study which a gay man flash back to his teen years and the formative moment that hnts him to this day. A fight, aga, at the gay bar, is one answer. Another answer slowly to foc as the movie giv a broad portra of Jonas’ life, flashg back 18 years to 1997, when he was a teenager (Nilas Bwens), playg his Game Boy, gog to high school and hidg his emergg homosexualy.

FRENCH GAY COMG OF AGE MOVIE ‘I AM JONAS’ IS A PERFECT SUMMER RPE OM DPAIR: WATCH

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Between the gay bar, Boys, Jonas’ boyiend and later hookup, Jonas’ e of Grdr, and of urse the flashbacks that show the buddg romance between Jonas and Nathan – our two leads are most certaly gay. A morn gay-gem! Its quali such as pth, a good, myster story that slowly unfolds ont of your ey, and of urse our homo problems, that are wag to be cleared off on a very long que this time h you straight the heart whout any superficialy.