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Country: France, Language: French, 47 mins

Original Title

Les Corps Ouverts
  • Director: Sébastien Lifshitz
  • Writer: Stephane Bouquet; Sébastien Lifshitz

CGiii Comment

It's a dark, moody gay-4-pay story...not the cheeriest of tales.

If you want to feel miserable for a while...then, you could do not better than this confrontational head-butt.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Sebastien Lifshitz directed this French drama, winner of the 1998 Prix Jean Vigo. Born to a North African father and a French mother, 18-year-old Parisian high school senior Remi (Yasmine Belmadi) works part-time in an Arab grocery store while studying management and commerce. He responds to a school ad seeking subjects for a film, and Marc (Pierre-Loup Rajot), who placed the ad, auditions Remi by filming an interview with him. Remi and Marc wind up in bed, and Remi soon has other sexual experiences -- with a guy (Lifshitz) in a men's room and with a young woman (Margot Abascal) who grabs him while she's dancing in the street.

Cast & Characters

Yasmine Belmadi as Remi;
Pierre-Loup Rajot as Marc;
Margot Abascal as The young girl;
Mohamed Damraoui as Father;
Malik Zidi as Classroom mate;
Dora Dhouib as The sister;
Karim Belkhadra as The grocer;
Rejane Kerdaffrec as The teacher;
Sebastien Lifshitz as Trick at gay club