Jonas/ジョナス
あらすじ
大人になった今でもジョナスを苦しめる過去の記憶。それは、衝動的でゆがんでいたのに、抗いがたい魅力あふれるナタンとの10代の恋の思い出にほかならない。
大人になった今でもジョナスを苦しめる過去の記憶。それは、衝動的でゆがんでいたのに、抗いがたい魅力あふれるナタンとの10代の恋の思い出にほかならない。
音楽: Alex Beaupain
制作: Marie Masmonteil / Sandrine Brauer
撮影監督: Pierre Baboin
制作会社: ARTE / En Compagnie des Lamas
This is quite a well put together little drama recounting the life of "Jonas" through the twin threads of his late childhood and of a current day thirty-something. Félix Maritaud plays the elder incarnation in a typically gritty and plausible way (though he does look like he could do with a good meal!) with Nicolas Bauwens as his younger, largely conformist, self. My problem is that the narrative that gets us from person A to person B - via a new schoolfriend "Nathan" doesn't quite work. There is an incident, which we do discover at the end, but it leaves me with a feeling of incompleteness. Perhaps that's Christophe Charrier's plan - that there are no "happy endings", but I am struggling to fathom just how Jonas got onto this path of self destruction and his life, so out of hand in the first place. As with loads of French gay cinema, it is filmed at night - via street light - and is all the more evocative for that.
