Breaking Glass Pictures
goes over to the dark side of love with Our Paradise on Feb. 19 with the
French-language import from actor-turned-writer/director Gaël Morel.
Vassili (Stéphane Rideau
— Wild
Reeds, Come Undone, etc.) is a “male escort,” who prefers robbery and violence
to giving any sort of satisfaction to his customers. Those days have slipped away. He’s heading towards 40 and the dark streets
of Paris offer neither prospects of a bright future or romance.
Surprise, surprise …
after dealing with his latest “conquest” he stumbles across an unconscious
young stud and doesn’t something quite unexpected. He takes him home and tends to his wounds — a
possible beating victim. He was
certainly in the right neighborhood for it … the streets can be a dangerous
place.
He says is name is Angelo
(Dimitri Durdaine in his film debut) and Vassili’s tender mercies turn into a
passionate love affair … one that gets him to thinking. Paris holds no future, so they take to the
road to find their “paradise” and escape the sex and violence that permeates their
lives. Their combined attempts at
hustling — even a little hi-tech hustling — doesn’t provide the satisfaction
that Vassili yearns for … or Angelo appears to need.
Old friends; old acquaintances
and an idyllic countryside (filmed in and around Lyon) seems to offer the two a
future, but the violence; the frustrations of Vassili’s fading lifestyle are
always there, ready to surface and take control.
Jealousy, sex,
frustration, violence and the dark side of love are all on view in Gaël Morel’s
in critically-praised Our Paradise.
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