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Acts of Love

Country: USA | France, Language: English, 71 mins

  • Director: Isidore Bethel; Francis Leplay
  • Producer: Isidore Bethel; Francis Leplay; Lucie Rego; Pauline Tran Van Lieu; Jamie Gon*alves

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When his older boyfriend loses interest in him, filmmaker Isidore Bethel relocates to Chicago and uses dating apps to cast new lovers in an amorphous project about attraction, rejection, compatibility and attachment. His mom hates the concept and offers her honest opinions throughout the process. Her amusing role as a sounding board prevents the experiment from becoming an aimless and narcissistic way of dealing with a break-up. Blending pop-up photos, scripted and unscripted scenes, this hybrid picks up on the vulnerability and protections men put up in sexual scenarios, and discovers a meaning of love where investment in a relationship isn't measured by a partner's commitment but by your own—to pleasing yourself. Who you love can be determined by who fits you best, whose body is your landscape and how well you travel together. The director searches for love in the other, and with the help of his mother, finds it within himself.

Angie Driscoll


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Isidore Bethel