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Title
The French Boys
Director
Genevieve KuzakDate
2021Origin
FranceDescription
After exploring butch4butch bdsm dynamics in their 2020’s film American Pornography, filmmaker Gen Kuzak chooses to delve into trans fag sexuality with their latest work, The French Boys. A narrator is masturbating, as they fall asleep… and in their dreams, Kuzak creates a space where actors can compose, freely, allowing them to show on screen what can’t be perform - vulnerability. By making the choice of staging a real life couple, The French Boys transcends the idea of sexuality as a performance or physical aesthetics, allowing us to be the witness of how love expresses itself. Clear light, minimal staging and absolute freedom happening on screen : The French Boys is a new kind of hybrid, showing that sex can be raw and direct, and still be extremely moving, perfectly illustrating the saying - fist is an act of love.
