The director's boyfriend got arrested, so he made a movie about finding his replacement. Chaos.
Johan details the director's quest for an actor to play his titular lover, the real deal having been incarcerated just prior to shooting on charges of petty theft.
Direction
Vallois blurs documentary and fiction until you forget which is which.
Acting
Non-professionals playing themselves playing characters—raw, unguarded.
Director
Philippe Vallois
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Vallois actually did cast his imprisoned lover's replacement—then fell for the replacement too. French cinema, baby.
Shot during the brief window between France's 1974 porn legalization and the AIDS crisis, capturing a vanished queer ecosystem.
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