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The Netflix drought led to taking out my André Téchiné discs and running them again.

Today is about a kid from the Provinces who comes to Paris and loses his way. He ends up becoming a hustler to live. And, at the same time, he makes some good friends and creates an interesting story. One cannot help but believe that it might be autobiographical.

J'Embrasse Pas / I Don't Kiss (1991).

Like the others this is slightly comic and hardly tragic although some tough stuff happens to the kid.

Rites of passage in the big city.

Manuel Blanc, the wonderful Emmanuelle Beart and Philip Noiret as the older gay man who sticks by the kid. A father figure if there ever was one.

The film has subtitles.

Labels: films, gay films