With his first film, Christophe Charrier mixes with learning story, love story and psychological thriller.
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For his first feature film, Christophe Charrier signs the very beautiful portrait of a young man whose nights and days remain fluffed by the scent of his adolescence. Since high school, an unhappy meeting, a black hole, a disappearance envelops and aspire Jonas, like tentacles, in the abyss of discomfort.
The thirties hardly sees him sat: Jonas drowns his evenings with paradise boys, thirsty for mouths, backroom sex and punches. He spoils and tramples his daily life, until one day he feels ready or forced to face his decomposed past. In search of repair, ready to give himself a chance of redemption, just as he had quickly learned to order the pieces of the electronic puzzle Tetris, on his game boy, fifteen years ago.
between two eras
Entry into the matter lets imagine a horror film or, at the very least, a fantastic theme. This is not the case. While the father is full of petrol and will pay inside the station, his 15 -year -old son, Jonas (Nicolas Bauwens), plays Game Boy in the car – we are in the mid -1990s. He then sees, with Terror, a teenager sticking against the door. He begs him to help him before disappearing, caught up in a man. Vision or reality? The second part of the film will lead the spectator to interpret this image of two teens, face against face but separated by a window, one tremblant, the other evanescent.
temporal ellipse. At 30, Jonas (Félix Maritaud) is impulsive, unstable, disturbed. Randomly holes by the lights of the coast, according to the upheavals of his motorcycle, he crosses Toulon and the surroundings like other young people, in other films, rushed the streets of Rome, in the same vital momentum . And, following a Jonas going up the course of time, the film will bequeath between two eras: that of the present time, who sees Jonas, tiny guy, wander next to his life, and the one where he was a teenager Shy and secret, fascinated by Nathan, his daring and gouailter boyfriend.
Jonas owes a good part of his intensity to his performers. Starting with Félix Maritaud (120 beats per minute, a knife in the heart, wild), who camps there once again a formidable young man flayed. His youngest partners (Nicolas Bauwens, Tommy-Lee Baik and Ilian Bergala), just like Aure Atika (Nathan’s mother), are also showing great sensitivity in their game.
Christophe Charrier, who mixes with grace learning story, love story and psychological thriller, picked up an almost big home – Best TV movie, Best Music (Alex Beaupain) and Best achievement – at the Festival de la Fiction TV of the ROCHELLE 2018.