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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780794204297 Format: Color, Subtitled, NTSC ISBN: 0794204295 Label: Fox Lorber Manufacturer: Fox Lorber Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Fox Lorber Release Date: December 09, 2003 Running Time: 102 minutes Sales Rank: 60331 Studio: Fox Lorber
Description: After receiving a videocamera for his 16th birthday, a competitive ice skater chronicles the world around him while struggling through adolescence and questioning his sexual identity.
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Rating: - This Little Film Grows On You
Etienne (Jimmy Tavares) at sixteen gets a digital camera and goes about filming everything and everyone he sees. As the film begins and the camera jumps around, I thought, "Not another lackluster" French coming-out story." The movie gets a lot better-- as we are to believe that Etienne gains more skill in the use of the camera, particularly when he discovers that it has a remote-- and is well worth watching.
Etienne, a figure skater, shoots his mother, his grandmother, his friend Ludovic, whom he has a secret crush on, and his geography teacher Laurent, whom he also lusts after, and ... Read More
Rating: - Unusual
Ma vraie vie a Rouen (My Life on Ice) is an interesting and unusual coming of age movie. All coming of age movies follow a certain pattern with specific elements to it. The cute boys, usually buddies or best friends; maybe one of the boy has a crush on the other; the combination of gay and straight in the boys or both gay; the torture, confusion, and struggle for the gay boy to accept and for others to accept him. The disillusion of family members once the boy comes out. Movies like "Beautiful Thing", "Get Real", and "Summer Storm" are some of the better type of this genre. All actors, generally, ... Read More
Rating: - it was ok
if you want to see a comeing of age movie of someone with a movie camera
Rating: - good acting, but borring
good acting, but it did get borring 20 min into the movie, i had to force myself to keep watching.
Rating: - A young, deep, rich closet!
The English title does not refer to narcotics, by the way. This film involves a young ice skater who is obsessive about using his video camera. If this didn't have a plot and plot development, one would almost think it was non-fictional. The disjointed cuts and extraneous sights make the work complex, almost in the style of James Joyce's or Gertrude Stein's writings. However, I do imagine that most American viewers, even non-homophobic ones, will hate this work due to its unconventional (cheap?) style.
A Freudian could have a field day on this because there is so much scopophilia, ... Read More
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