Being at Home With Claude

If you are looking for a police drama with lots of action, this is not the movie for you. If you appreciate intricate character studies, then "Being At Home With Claude" delivers.

Dupuis owns this movie through and through. The film is Yves's confession and largely takes place in one room with just the police detective. In such a restricted setting, Dupuis holds our attention with his ability to convey a variety of different emotions: guilt, anger, love, frustration. His ability to make us care about his character, to feel some sort of empathy, is what makes this excellent film so captivating.


A must-see for those who really know something about pain   October 12, 1999
11 out of 13 found this review helpful

This is the movie that once you see it, you will never forget. It will change the way you look at life forever. I wathsed it three times the first day I rent it. The film wan't very comfortable to watch because of subject matters, but the story was so compelling that I still remember how I felt that day even now. Maybe it was just like the story itself, the character spoke out the deep desperation I had in real live, something we usually have to hide beneath ourselves otherwise we cann't hang on to our lives. It is a beautiful movie, in many ways. I cann't imagine what the actors must go through to portait the charactors that provocative but so deep at the same time. The is the best performance of Roy Dupuis I'd ever seen. And one story I'll never forget in my life.


This is a must see film   September 11, 1999
10 out of 11 found this review helpful

Roy Dupuis gives a heart felt proformance as Yves a smart and sexy hustler who wasn't looking for what he found when he met Claude. This is a film about what we are all searching for and what most of us never really find, because when we have it most of the time we don't know what to do with it. Yves finds it, and it terrified him, made him feel lost and confused. And he took that feeling of desperation out on the only person who could really understand. Words can't discribe this film in the way it should be discribed, so I suggest you buy this film, sit back, be perpared to have your heart broken and your mind expanded. Once you see it I promise you will never be the same.


This is an emotional film!   March 19, 2001
10 out of 10 found this review helpful

It is dark and sordid but really could not be portrayed fittingly in any other way. The acting is absolutely phenomenal. Roy Dupuis not only takes the show but forcefully steals it so that you begin to wonder if he isn't the only actor in the movie. The cinematography is also well done with flashbacks and subtle switching between color and black & white. It was a little difficult to follow at first because it is English sub-titled and the actors are speaking extremely fast. The passion however, is unmistakable and I truly felt that this was an actual event happening before my eyes as opposed to a film script. I was pulled into the emotional contradiction and inner wrestling that the character Yves was feeling and could almost taste the pain. If this is Roy Dupuis' first movie debut, we are in for a wild, wild ride! This actor obviously loves his art.


a mind-blowing trip   August 26, 2001
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

Intense, with horror and beauty so intertwined it's hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. Not for the faint of heart or for those who are turned off by gays. But it is a wonderful story, well-acted (Dupuis turns in a magnificent performance) and filled with suspense that is relieved only at the end -- it keeps your attention riveted. It certainly made me wish my French were good enough to follow the dialogue, which is swift and complex. The subtitles follow reasonably well, so you do get the gist of the experience. Well worth the price, as it is the sort of movie one watches more than once, finding new elements of meaning each time it is viewed.