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april
16 - 23
2002

 
Vues d'en face - 2002    
Grenoble international gay and lesbian film festival    
     

    Les Films Sélectionnés

         

 

  1. Hush !
  2. Gelée précoce
  3. Cercle intime
  4. Raison de vivre
  5. Ami/amant
  6. Hey, Happy !
  7. La rage au coeur
  8. Que faisaient les femmes...
  9. Eban and Charley
  10. Etre et se vivre homo
  11. Venus boyz
  12. Lan Yu
  13. Histoire de courts...
  14. Better than chocolate
  15. Ce vieux rève qui bouge
  16. Tarik el Hob
  17. Memento mori
  18. Trembling before G-d
  19. Lola et Bilidikid
  20. Uttara



Beloved Friend
(Amigo/Amado - Ami/Amant)

Spain, 1998, VO French Subtitles, 90'
 

Prix du meilleur scénario et prix du jury étudiant
Cinespana' 99

A mature and ill man, a medieval literature professor, has gone over his personal life and has decided, amongst his doubts, what he wants to leave others once he passes away. An inheritance in the form of an essay, based on Llull's "The book of the Friend and the Beloved", which he has saved in the memory of his personal computer.

His best and oldest friend is bothered by an inheritance that could be contaminated by the fear of death.

The best and most recent of his students does not want to be his heir, as he wants to keep his dark and ambiguous freedom.

That best and oldest friend is married and has a daughter. He is an almost happy man, as long as things go well, who is so and so loved by his wife... Unfortunately, his daughter, on the other hand, visits them to talk about a slight problem. But, who really needs helps in the house-hold ?

The five characters, in gripping race against time, argue, struggle and hurt each other, while at the same time they discover the roots of their mutual love, their passion, and reconsider their future well-nigh tragic consequences. A completely incomprehensible future, but on which, depends salvation.

However incomprehensive this future, their salvation - in various degrees - still depends on it.

 
Writer(s) : Josep Maria Benet i Jornet
Director(s) : Ventura Pons
With : Jose Maria Pou, Rosa Maria Sarda, Mario Gas, David Selvas, Irene Montala
 

 

 

 

 

 

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