Being at Home With Claude | 
| Director: Jean Beaudin
Actors: Roy Dupuis, Jacques Godin, Jean-francois Pichette, Gaston Lepage, Hugo Dube
Studio: Fox Lorber
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 14751
Format: Color, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 86 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 1572521414
UPC: 720917013244
EAN: 9781572521414
ASIN: 1572521414
Theatrical Release Date: October 1993
Release Date: September 1, 1998
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Condition: New. Mint in box. Factory sealed. French language with English subtitles.Different box art.
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 It is his most emotional! November 7, 2007
M. Ruiz (Chicago, IL USA)
I viewed this movie a long time ago, because I, too, was a La Femme Nikita fan, and because an admirer of Mr. Dupuis' work after this particular movie. I would like to add that this movie was also admitted to Cannes of that year, and it was Mr. Dupuis' first major role. He killed in this movie, literally and figuratively. He was both emotional and sensual in his portrayal of a streetwise prostitute who murdered his lover for no apparent reason it seemed, except in his own mind, with flashbacks into his past, his partyings, his first encounter with his later-murdered lover, and in the end, gives a soliquoy of explanation of his crime to a rather sympathetic police investigator (played perfectly by a well-known international actor). He played, in my opinion, a rather honest and raw portrayal of the gay life, especially of a young, hot stud living life one night at a time. I'm a female and I was entranced by this gay character. Please see this movie before any other RD movie. You will also be very impressed.
Being At Home With Claude October 14, 2002
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
Fans of "La Femme Nikita" finally get to see Roy Dupuis emote in this chamber drama. Dupuis plays Yves, a tortured prostitute, who has murdered his lover. The film plays out as a police interrogation, the detective slowing drawing out the harrowing details from Yves.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.
 Yummy Roy at his best! June 7, 2002
Dawn R. Shuler (Toledo,Ohio)
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
I watched this video today. I was alittle annoyed by the english subtitles but couldn't keep my eyes off of the beautiful speciman of a man! Roy is delicious!He looked so good! I felt it really showed what a great actor he could be! If you like Roy you will put up with the subtitles!It's worth reading them!
WELL...I USED TO LOVE HIM..BUT I HAD TO KILL HIM... April 2, 2002
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Very dark side of of the gay genre, but certainly not unbelievable.( since the opening scene is the murder of one of the actors, this should not give the plot away) as most of the movie is about,"why yves did it". I'm sure this is not the first film about killing the one you love... and It will not be the last. Mr. GoodBar comes to mind, but he was just a nut out to get his jollies at the right moment.As Yves tells the inspector,'you cannot explain it in words, it doesn't work, the feelings cannot be described as one thinks them'.
You have to draw on your imagination to get to the agonizing and hopelessness of Yves demented love for claude. We do not get to have a deeper evaluation of Claude's psyche. P>Halfway decent gay themed movies are hard to find, and I cannot imagine what Hollywood would have done with this flick, but, if you can take the heavy darkness of this movie it will leave you thinking, about the obsessions of love and how it can deform your psyche. Actually the only thing that really bothered me about this movie, was the title.
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Emotional rollercoaster ride March 19, 2002
muse (lalaland)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
First thing: 5 stars is not enough for this movie. It won Dupuis some awards and it should have won him even more. The whole movie is staged in one room - the Judge's office- with the occasional flashback into Yves'(Dupuis)life and the circumstances that got him to kill the person he loved most. With Yves is a police-officer who in the beginning doesn't care about Yves at all and expresses his disgust quite openly but Yves doesn't give an inch - he knows he is guilty and he wants to be punished. That's all that matters to him. While the officer unwraps Yves identity his walls crumble and he begins to tell what led him to commit this crime. The acting is so intense that you actually feel you become a part of the story. You are there! Right with Yves. You feel what he felt and it is actually scary that one would understand what led Yves to commit this crime. Jaques Grodin compliments Dupuis acting very well. The tough guy that has seen it all and who has no sympathy for 'scum' like Yves actually takes a lesson from him in the end - from someone who really loved - even if he was a murderer. When Dupuis gives his 30 minute monolgue at the end of the movie I regularly forget to breathe. And a movie that can do that, even after the tenth time you have seen it, simply deserves more than 5 stars....
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