SMALLTOWN BOYS (Des garçons de province) dir. Gaël Lépingle
Duration: 84 min Country: France Language: French Available subtitles: English, Deutsch, Español, Italiano, 日本語 WATCH: WATCH: WATCH: Vimeo (World) / Amazon US / Amazon UK / Amazon Italia / Amazon.mx / Amazon.es / Amazon.ca / Amazon.nl / Amazon.com.au |
Vaudeville performer Jonas, lost in love villager Youcef and a wandering boy with dreams that know no bounds. Three provincial towns across France are explored through the prism of these boys who like boys, their lives intertwining, their futures overlapping.
WRITTEN BY: Michaël Dacheux, Gaël Lépingle
CAST: Léo Pochat, Serge Renko, Yves Batek Mendy, Edouard Prévot, Loïc Assemat
PRODUCED BY: Antoine Delahousse, Thomas Jaeger, Gaël Teicher
CAST: Léo Pochat, Serge Renko, Yves Batek Mendy, Edouard Prévot, Loïc Assemat
PRODUCED BY: Antoine Delahousse, Thomas Jaeger, Gaël Teicher
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Gaël Lépingle has directed films and documentaries that have screened at festivals worldwide (Rotterdam, Viennale, Cinéma du Réel, Jeonju). In 2015, he directed a medium-length film that was performed entirely in song, 'Une jolie vallée' (A pretty valley). I was released in cinemas in 2019. 'Julien' (2010) and 'Seuls les pirates' ('The Times of the Pirates' - 2018) received the grand prize in the French selection at FID Marseille festival. After 'L’Été nucléaire' (Nuclear summer - 2020), which premiered at : Champs Elysées Film Festival and Festival de Cine de Sevilla, 'Smalltown Boys' (Des Garçons de province) is his fourth feature film.
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DIRECTOR'S NOTE
There is the one who stays, the one who leaves and the one who is just passing through. I wanted to come back to the question of living, but from an angle of gender and sexuality. We often hear: "It's not the fact that it happens between two boys that matters, but rather the truth of their feelings." As if their path could not be determined by social and historical factors... The portrayal of the gay community as some sort of urban and trendy universe often functions as a fence. I wanted to detach the characters from this community, to portray them alone, in their solitude. The triptych structure was a way to break from the norm, to establish relativities, relationships. It is above all about the difficulty of living in an environment where there is no one who looks like us - "another self" - no possible friend. It is an experience of loneliness that is universal, beyond gender issues, even if these remain decisive.
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