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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0759259140899
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Label: WATER BEARER FILMS
Manufacturer: WATER BEARER FILMS
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: WATER BEARER FILMS
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 26, 2006
Running Time: 55 minutes
Sales Rank: 34896
Studio: WATER BEARER FILMS
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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Product Description:
Sebastien dreams of being someone else. someone more outgoing more outrageous and more sexual. When the 18 year old leaves his small French town and moves to Paris to become an actor, he reinvents himself and changes his name to Zack. The City Of Lights cast a captivating glow for young Zack. Every night he cruises the city's most fashionable gay bars, dressed to kill and hoping to find a guy who swill love him. He moves from encounter to encounter, unable to find sexual or emotional fulfillment with anyone. Alone is his bedroom at night, Zack relives memories from happier times back in his home town and the close relationship he had with his best friend Roman. When Roman calls and announces that he is coming to Paris, Zack begins to rekindle the unrequited feelings he has for his best friend and is forced to make some big decisions about his life and how to live it honestly.
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Rating:  - Great acting, so erotic!
Benoit and the guy he did it the 1st time , the scene was just so real!
I get it off my chest first, but the film is pretty good and honest view of gay life. A bit disappoiting since the movie is shrt but well. it's better than some that keep you yawning.
I watched the original French version so I am not sure if this U.S edtion cut some "scenes". anyway, if you don't like to buy it, rent it an see, it's a feast to see how sensual French movie is!
Rating:  - So much promise, little delivered
Nup, sorry, not what they said it would be. I had high hopes for this release which arrived today, but 55min later (a short film I might add) I walked away having eaten a steak well done when I ordered rare. The concept of this coming-of-age drama is fine but the acting - so,so - the script - unsatisfying - and the ending - weak. I know how it was 'meant' to end but it didn't deliver the impact I would have expected. So, as mentioned, great story but poorly delivered. I was looking forward to this one sooo much, oh well. By the way, the transfer is 5/10 for quality, shame, as this also detracted from my viewing pleasure...
Rating:  - if you had a crush on a friend
this is a basic coming out and self discovery of ones seexuality and how a crush on a straigh best friend makes you have to move from them to find one self
Rating: - Not worth $25
While I respect the rights of others to offer you a different opinion, I found this film to be lacking a great deal.
The acting was passable, but it would appear from the "making of featurette" (which is 32 minutes compared to the movie itself being a grand total of only 55 minutes) that this is more a love story between the writer and the lead actor than it is between two boys who are "like a brother" to one another. The one exception to this is a scene where Roman (or Romain, as the sub-titler spelled it) pleads with Zack/Sebastien to not leave him... there's a sense of genuine longing between the young men.
This is a story that could have been told so much better. Confusing flashbacks and undeveloped relationships afforded the writers and directors much more opportunity to tell a much deeper and more meaningful story than they did. I'll leave it the other reviewers who've given you a plot synopsis to tell the story, but suffice it to say that it was a disappointment on many levels.
First, whoever did the subtitles is largely unable to construct meaningful sentences in English. The purpose for subtitles is to hear the dialogue and then, using the vernacular in the target language, tell the story of what's going on in the dialogue. Whoever did these subtitles merely took the French words and translated them to English, which if you've ever spoken French, you'll know that the grammar is not the same as English, so the subtitles fail to tell the entire ... Read More
Rating:  - Finding Self Through Flashbacks and Fragments
'Comme un frère' (Like a Brother) is a brief film by writers and directors Bernard Alapetite and Cyril Legann that succinctly examines the development of identity of a young lad over a period of less than a year. The technique of telling the story of the coming of sexual age of a boy is one that may confuse some viewers - the present is combined with the past in a patchwork manner, the only key that the past is the subject is the use of near monochrome film color that successfully suggests the blur that past events now faded affect the senses - becomes one of the more unique aspects of this little French film.
The story opens in Paris where young Sébastien/AKA Zack (Benoît Delière) sits in a café with his current boyfriend Bruno (Johnny Amaro) and lets it be known that it is his birthday. Bruno's questioning as to why Sébastien is not in a celebratory mood begins flashbacks of a year ago when Sébastien lived in the small coastal town of La Baule where he doted on his best friend Romain (Thibault Boucaux). Despite Romain's devotion and physical closeness to Sébastien, Romain is in love with Sophie (Amandine Maugy) whose best friend Marine (Adeline Ishiomin) is trying to attract the love interest of Sébastien. The four are close, but something is missing: Sébastien loves Romain and while the two have some beautifully tender moments together, Romain is not the gay boy Sébastien needs.
Sébastien leaves his provincial town for Paris, connects with his father ... Read More
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