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FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT

Today's film was François Ozon's

Le refuge / Hideway (2009)

This wonderful film starts dark. A young couple, shooting up, nodding out. The young man overdoses.

Then an escape to the country. The family of the young man tries to intervene in the pregnancy of the young woman. A brother comes to see her. He is a gay man.

The rest is all spoilers if I talk about it. But the film lightens and grows in spirit from this point in a delightful way.

There are many surprises on the way to the final scenes which, in a way, are a new beginning for everyone.

I would like to see this again along with some of Ozon's other films. It is quite unique in every respect.

I will give it a 5 out of Netflix5.

Labels: films, gay identity