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1996 Certificate 18
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Jimmy (Rideau) is the confident, sexy gang leader and best friend of Quentin - a young writer who betrays his background and his friends. Julie (Bouchez) is the girlfriend of Quentin, but has designs on Jimmy. Samir is still healing from the loss of his first love, Rick, and falls for the sexually confused Quentin. When Samir .. Read more

Starring Elodie Bouchez, Stéphane Rideau, Pascal Cervo, Mezziane Bardadi
Director Gael Morel, Gaël Morel
Genres Drama, Gay/Lesbian, World Cinema

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A Toute Vitesse

Jimmy (Rideau) is the confident, sexy gang leader and best friend of Quentin - a young writer who betrays his background and his friends. Julie (Bouchez) is the girlfriend of Quentin, but has designs on Jimmy. Samir is still healing from the loss of his first love, Rick, and falls for the sexually confused Quentin. When Samir is spurned, he starts to let go of his past and forms a close friendship with Julie and Jimmy - a bond so close, it will change his life permanently.

Starring Elodie Bouchez, Stéphane Rideau, Pascal Cervo, Mezziane Bardadi
Director Gael Morel, Gaël Morel
Studio MILLIVRES MULTIMEDIA
Run time DVD: 1 hr 22 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Genres Drama, Gay/Lesbian, World Cinema
Language DVD: French
Subtitles DVD: English
Released DVD: not available
Production year: 1996
Format DVD

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  • 2 stars out of 5

    In making his directorial debut, Gaël Morel adheres closely to the theme of disaffected youth that inspired the film in which he made his name, André Téchiné's Les Roseaux Sauvages. Indeed, he even recruits his co-star, Elodie Bouchez, to hold together a picture that admirably captures the language and attitudes of modern teenagers, before opting for some disappointingly formulaic resolutions. It's also unfortunate that Pascal Cervo, as the Lyons adolescent embarking upon his first novel, is upstaged by the more abrasive Stéphane Rideau, who bitterly resents Meziane Bardadi, the gay Algerian Cervo plans to immortalize in print. Patchy, but occasionally provocative.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • Unafraid to delve into complex issues... a striking film whose many moments stay with you long after the credits roll.

    • Gay Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

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    Rated - 2 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Runs out of [gallic] gas

    I know teenagers, and even sexually-confused ones, tend to take themselves too seriously, but really! Not even French teenagers would sound as stagey as these characters.

    Everyone's tremendously pretty and tremendously articulate and tremendously confused and tremendously incredible and tremendously boring. All their actions are analysed by themselves with unnatural skill and ludicrously heightened histrionics.

    The acting is wooden, to say the least, but the poor actors didn't really have much of a script to play with, to be fair. There are so many better films around that, though it's not a complete disaster, there are much better ways of spending your time than watching this tosh.

      • Rehan from London
      • Posted 22 Dec 2005 22:29

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  • 5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Half Speed

    A film that looks good on screen, but doesn’t really know what it’s about or where it’s going. For a start, the 'disaffected' teenage characters all act far too grown-up and responsible. We have a boy who writes a book and goes off to Paris to right another one, a 16 year old who is still getting over the death of a gay lover he lost two years ago. We even have an ex-drug dealer who’s better behaved than my Grandmother and is really good friends with the book writer (we don’t really know why). Oh, and they all seem to wonder around in a world devoid of adult supervision (‘my parents are away’, ‘my mother’s at work’). You have scenes thrown in that are obviously just ‘fillers’ to make it look pretty or dramatic (rides on bikes through the countryside; drug-induced rants in the woods; staring at gypsies playing music whilst walking in the middle of nowhere), which serve no purpose. They hardly know each other, but then just turn up on each other’s doorsteps without the bat of an eyelid. A quite significant argument and fight between two of them is curiously never discussed by anyone! The main character goes off half way through the film and we see no more of him (what's his life like now, why doesn’t he contact his friends?) until the very end of the film, and even then he doesn’t seem bothered and we get no inkling of what he’s feeling. Nice to look at but lacks any coherence or rationale and thus any real reason to watch it.

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