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| 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: 15070
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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| Customer Reviews:
 intriguing April 3, 1999
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
For fans of Roy Dupuis, this film is a must - he shows incredible range and gives an emotional and heartfelt performance. The subject matter is very adult, but except for the crucial first five minutes of the movie, there are no other sex scenes. The movie is more cerebral and relies heavily on conversations, mostly Dupuis' monologues in interrogation after his confession to murder - this is not an action packed movie. The cinematography is really stellar, as well as the use of black and white for the past sequences. I would highly recommend this movie - I did not give it five stars, however, because there is a little something that the movie seems to be missing that would make it a great movie. If you are interested in a movie with similar themes (homosexuality, identity crises) I would highly recommend The Buddha of Suburbia, which is an excellent, well made movie, and to which I would give 5 stars
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.
ciao yaaah69
 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!
It will push your boundaries - which is an added plus! April 6, 1999
Esteban Molina (San Francisco)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
The film is in French-Canadian patois, so you'll have to be willing to deal with subtitles. Do so please. It's a terribly European film in style (no bad thing). It relies primarily on dialogue and even more on extended monologue, not action, to tell its story. The story might seem sordid - but is it? Its glory is that it lays bare the yearning at the core of human existence. Its tragedy is that the two people most concerned don't believe, having found in each other a solace for that yearning, that their solace has a hope in the world they live in. The film itself makes very little comment on its content, nor will it provide you any ready-made moral "answers". It won't do a bit of your thinking for you. But watch it - and reflect. It may stretch your heart - and God knows, the world needs that.
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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