Unfoldg real time, the aftermath of an enunter a gay sex club is full of feelg and an immersive sense of the i
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MORN FRENCH GAY LOVE STORY
Theo and Hugo sets a high bar for movi about morn gay life. * françois nambot gay *
” — 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. The libidal aggrsn that f male stct and is an unniable part of gay socializg on the street, bars, diss and even sex clubs get acknowledged Hugo and Theo's meat-cute.