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Close to Leo

Country: France, Language: French, 90 mins

Original Title

Tout Contre Léo
  • Director: Christophe Honoré
  • Writer: Diastème; Christophe Honoré
  • Producer: Sophie Deloche; Serge Moati

CGiii Comment

You will want to like this...but, irritatingly, there are just too many gaping holes.

Crammed with inconceivable scenarios and a distracted director at the helm - where did your concentration go?

Gladly, there are slivers of a good story...sadly, the work of a director who frequently takes his finger off of the pulse.


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The(ir) Blurb...

When 21 year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV+ family bonds are tested. The family decides that 11 year Marcel, the youngest, is too young to understand and the family agrees to keep the unsettling news from him. Marcel overhears enough to understand that something amiss with Leo and when the two travel to Paris together, Marcel confronts Leo with what he suspects.

Cast & Characters

Yaniss Lespert as Marcel;
Pierre Mignard as Léo;
Marie Bunel as Mother;
Rodolphe Pauly as Tristan;
Jérémie Lippmann as Pierrot;
Dominic Gould as Father;
Louis Gonzales as Yvan;
Joana Preiss as Yvan's Mother;
Alex Beaupain;        
Assaad Bouab as Aymeric;
Sylvie Contant;        
Louis Gonzalez;        
Julien Honoré;        
Laurent Honoré;        
Anna Kerivel