Garçon stupide

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Garçon stupide

Directed by	Lionel Baier
Produced by	Robert Boner
Written by	Lionel Baier, Laurent Guido
Starring	Pierre Chatagny, Natacha Koutchoumov
Distributed by	Picture This!
Release date(s)	10 March 2004 (Switzerland)
Running time	94 min
Language	French
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Garçon stupide (English: Stupid Boy) is a 2004 film directed by Lionel Baier.

[edit] Main cast

Pierre Chatagny – Loïc
Natacha Koutchoumov – Marie
Rui Pedro Alves – Rui
Lionel Baier – Lionel

This French language film tells the story of 18year old Loic, who works by day in a chocolate factory, and by night cruises the internet for sex with older men. His life is a series of pointless anonymous sexual encounters until he meets one man who appears to be interested in him for himself, and not just his body.

Loic's journey to self awareness is told through a series of episodic events, such as the suicide of his best friend, his growing infatuation with a local team's soccer star, a car accident and subsequent hospitalisation which uncomfortably reunites him with his parents. At the end of the film he realizes that he can be his own person and he recites a list of things he will never do in order to fit in and belong.