This coming-of-age drama deals with a young man, realizing who he really is and which things he will never do...
Acting
Chatagny's raw, uncomfortable vulnerability—like watching someone forget their lines in real life.
Cinematography
Cold Swiss landscapes that judge Loïc as hard as he judges himself.
Direction
Baier's unflinching eye for the mundane horror of being young and lost.
Director
Lionel Baier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the early-2000s European 'New Queer Cinema' wave that treated gay identity as restless and unresolved, not triumphant. Switzerland's stuffy politesse becomes its own character.
Baier allegedly cast Chatagny after a chance meeting at a club—the director's crush bleeds through the camera, making Loïc's objectification feel uncomfortably authentic.
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