Garçon Stupide (2004)

Loïc (Pierre Chatagny), un jeune garçon de 20 ans travaille comme ouvrier à la chaîne dans une manufacture de barres de chocolat. La nuit, il rencontre machinalement, sur Internet, puis en personne, de nombreux hommes avec qu'il laisse libre-cours à certains fanstasmes sexuels. Il a aussi, dans sa vie, une amie de longue date qui l'héberge chez elle lorsqu'il doit revenir de ses nuits endiablées. Loïc déambule de son existence sans pourtant la vivre. Trois événements majeurs déclencheront chez lui une soif de passer à l'âge adulte, à l'affirmation et à la découverte de soi. Une fiction voulant mêler des traits du documentaire et du ciné-réalité au scénario.

Twenty-year-old Loïc (Pierre Chatagny) works by day in a chocolate factory and by night cruises the internet for sex with older men. His life is a series of pointless anonymous sexual encounters until he meets one man who appears to be interested in him for himself, and not just his body. Loïc's journey to self awareness is told through a series of episodic events, such as the suicide of his best friend, his growing infatuation with a local team's soccer star, Rui Alves (Rui Pedro Alves), a car accident and subsequent hospitalisation which uncomfortably reunites him with his parents. At the end of the film he realizes that he can be his own person and he recites a list of things he will never do in order to fit in and belong.

GARÇON STUPIDE (STUPID BOY internationally) is a docu-drama from Switzerland that succeeded with ease because of the great characterisation of its lead star who is in fact, a straight guy in real life. Great cinematography and great sceneries that somehow serve as metaphors to the life of a confused guy trying to discover his true identity.

(In FRENCH with ENGLISH subtitles)

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