Once again French Cinema shows its maturity. Not many countries can say the same concerning homosexuality, but the French have taken the plunge in showing just how normal same-sex is, and quite literally in this short film we follow step by step homosexual desire and fulfilment. A teenager desires a young man who works at his school, and he makes the first move which is initially rejected. I will give no spoilers but parts of the sexuality are filmed, both by the director's cameraman, but also by the youth's camera. This is not pornography, but for remembrance in the eternal hope of capturing time. This short and excellently filmed short is recalling1992. If we use our imaginations we can see an older man recalling that year with the aid of the camera, and not only from the mind which often either exaggerates the past or gives it too much significance. I read a previous review of ' initiation in dark territory '. It is not like that at all, but to me pointed to a youth who wanted to film his life and various times in the lives of those he recalls, or still knows. The scenes with his father are justly praised, but then so are the scenes with his lover whose sexuality is so potent for the youth, and is this lover bisexual or gay ? We do not really know and we do not see if it extends in time. Louis Duneton is a fine young actor, and the rest of the cast are equal to him. For me it was quite simply a short film in praise of the power of desire, and quite rightly shows almost all without a hint of reticence. It left me wanting to know more about the youth's life, but the title itself shows clearly our curiosities restrictions.
Review of 1992
