AIDS is ever present in Christophe Honoré’s 2018 film Sorry Angel. But rather than dictate the choices and emotions of the characters, the disease simply colors their experiences, serving as a filter through which they see the world. In Winter Boy, Honoré approaches grief in a similarly subtle, intriguingly indirect manner. Where many films show grief merely as a crippling hindrance, Winter Boy sees it as an emotional state that constantly rises and recedes, disrupting the flow and morphing the meaning of everyday experience.
Honoré himself plays a soon-to-be-deceased father, Claude, immediately alluding to the personal nature of the film, which is based on his experiences after losing his own father. Winter Boy’s main focus, though, is Claude’s 17-year-old son, Lucas (Paul Kircher), who’s the same age that Honoré was when his father died, and who faces the aftermath of this loss with his mother, Isabelle (Juliette Binoche), and older brother,...
Honoré himself plays a soon-to-be-deceased father, Claude, immediately alluding to the personal nature of the film, which is based on his experiences after losing his own father. Winter Boy’s main focus, though, is Claude’s 17-year-old son, Lucas (Paul Kircher), who’s the same age that Honoré was when his father died, and who faces the aftermath of this loss with his mother, Isabelle (Juliette Binoche), and older brother,...
- 4/24/2023
- by Derek Smith
- Slant Magazine
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