Theo and Hugo sets a high bar for movi about morn gay life.
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MORN FRENCH GAY LOVE STORY
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” — e almost 20 mut to a dreay choreographed ee-for-all the basement of a gay Parisian sex club. ” 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. Their overnight story is a speed-up versn of the gay man's historic search for sexual happs and emotnal pannship before "marriage equaly" gave that search a fed goal and a polil end-pot.
Don't mistake this synopsis for a retread of Andrew Haigh's Weekend, which rced a gay male hook-up-then-datg to drab monotony.
It's not new for gay culture which has pend on pornography for verifitn of of s sir--the erotic wish-fulfillment that Hollywood had long nied. Dustel-Marte transcend pornography through their unabashed acceptance of gay male sexual activy. But 's the circumstanc of public sex--munal sex, shown whout disapproval or hibn, that giv honty and amazement to the film's unrstandg of gay male behavr.