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Just a Question of Love
After his gay cousin dies from hepatitis, young Laurent, who lives with his best friend Carole, falls in love with Cedric, a plant scientist. He's afraid to inform his conservative parents that he is gay.
Release : | 2000 |
Rating : | 7.8 |
Studio : | Hamster Productions, |
Crew : | Production Design, Director of Photography, |
Cast : | Cyrille Thouvenin Stéphan Guérin-Tillié Caroline Veyt Éva Darlan Danièle Denie |
Genre : | Drama Romance |
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Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
This is a story of Laurent dealing with his conservative parents about him being gay.This film tackles the modern way of family issue about their son being gay. I couldn't understand why they didn't just support them or be happy about them. I feel bad to people who experiences the same situation like Laurent. His Dad prefer him to leave than try to understand him. Mom are the heroes of the family they have heart to support their son although at some point its still hard for them to accept it.Its love. Why people can't understand the power of it? We are all human being who feel this love to a human being. Why its hard to some people that, we love the person because they share love to each other and not because of its gender? Love is being felt by two person.Love is love no matter who you share it with. It just happen that the person he loves is in the body of a guy, but its just the same love like girl loves the guy or guy loves the girl.We just need to be open-minded. If we think how wrong it was the gay to the society. What do you think they feel for themselves? and those who still afraid to come out because they doesn't want to be abandon by the people they love.This movie was a message for the parents to treasure their gay son. Not because they are gay but because they are their kids. Came from them and the one they take care of.
For a change: A coming-out story acted with great skill and staged with a sage sensitivity, realistic in so many ways, and dealing head-on with what is unfortunately an issue for far too many parents--accepting a child for what he or she is, how he or she develops, loving them simply because they are your children. The relationship between Cedric and Laurent develops quite easily, and because this is not a film about hot sex scenes but about people coping with growth and adulthood, one grows to care a good deal about the characters and share their development. This is a perfect film for parents who still might be hanging on to archaic gay issues in a so-called enlightened age--or for the kid who has to face the parents; if one were to judge by the media, just about everybody has adopted a enlightened stance about this once-touchy subject. If, however, one exists in a small community largely untouched by outside forces, it is a film like this that help in making changes easier--and at any rate, it's a touching, adult story told with great skill.
This drama was made for French TV.It seems that France makes much better TV movies than we do in the US.This starts in the same way many comedies start (meet -cute). Our young handsome hero has not come out to his parents. VERY GOOD REASON, his father is a BIGOT of the first order. Our young lad's somewhat older lover does have an understanding Mother. We do have a very pretty young lady who is a fellow student of our hero. The parents assume its a romance between girl & boy.Now all this we have seen before in many films. We expect the typical ending we see all the time,NOT here,I cannot reveal the ending, I will just say it is a most satisfying one.The acting is first rate all the way through,,The production values are also first rate.I really do not like downing American TV movies, But we do not make this kind of realistic Gay Themed films that can & should be seen by a large audience.Ratings:***1/2 (out of 4) 91 points (out of 100) IMDDB (9 out of 10)
It was interesting to read the stats that 6.3 million viewers saw this film when first aired in prime time on French public network. Shown on prime time, the public and critical response was overwhelmingly enthusiastic.Well, I concur.This is a most meticulously produced film that far transcends the television medium. Christian Faure's direction is excellent and the leading actors, Cyrille Thouvenin and Stephan Guerin-Tille, are superb.I have no negative criticism of this work, and only hope it will have the widest possible showing in regular movie houses. Too good to let lie unseen, it took five years from its making in 2000 to be released on DVD. Hopefully, this is only the beginning. Good work can't be kept a secret, and this is certainly one of the best-ever made-for-TV films.