Fireworks Logo

Trailers...

  • Ashes
  • Tree (The)
  • Male Gaze: Risk Appeal (The)
  • City of Mermaids
  • Mika Ex Machina
  • Outliers and Outlaws
  • Luther: The Fallen Sun
  • Do You Want to Die in Indio?
  • Groomsmen: First Look (The)
  • Amar Prem Ki Prem Kahani
  • Barbitch
  • Birthright
  • House with a Voice
  • Unbowed
  • Joy of Love (The)
  • Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
  • Electrocardiograma
  • In the Shadows of Dreams
  • Thesis on a Domestication
  • Drone
  • Flashback
  • Present Body
  • Some Nights I Feel Like Walking
  • As Fado Bicha
  • Feeling Randy
  • Confesiones Chin Chin
  • Third End of the Stick (The)
  • George Michael: Portrait of an Artist
  • They Are Siufung Law
  • Bluish
  • Fotogenico
  • Nobody Likes Me
  • Black Fruit
  • Sabbath Queen
  • One Last Night of You
  • No Dogs Allowed
  • Transmitzvah
  • Treasury of Human Inheritance (The)
  • Une histoire trans, 60 ans de combats pour exister
  • Sida, des années sombres aux premières victoires

Johan

Country: France, Language: French, 90 mins

  • Director: Philippe Vallois
  • Writer: Laurent Olivier; Philippe Vallois

CGiii Comment

In Britain, Jarman did Sebastiane...in France, Vallois did this...as comparison pieces, they are worlds apart.

In Britain, for the censors to pass male frontal nudity...it had to be artful.

In France...well...

Fisting?!? Artful?!?

Art-house gone too far.


Trailer...

The(ir) Blurb...

While Philipe waits for Johan to come out of jail he starts recreating several moments of their relationship with the help of several friends during the summer of 1975.

Cast & Characters

Marie-Christine Weill as Christine - L'amie du réalisateur;
Patrice Pascal as Philippe #1, le dragueur de nuit / L'image du réalisateur;
Philippe Vallois as Himself / Lui-même;
Laurent Laclos as Himself;
Georges Barber as Philippe #2 - le dragueur de jour / L'image du réalisateur;
Jean-Lou Duc as Le sadique;
Karl Forest as Le légionnaire;
Pierre Commoy as Pierre;
Manolo Rosales as Manolo;
Alexandre Grecq as Yvan Schneider;
Nicole Rondy as La mère de Philippe Vallois;
Éric Guadagnan as Johan #1;
Walter Manley as Walter - le patissier noir américain;
Jacques Léon as La Callas;
Thierry Loret