Garçon stupide
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| 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 | 10 March 2004 (Switzerland) |
Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Language | French |
Garçon stupide (English: Stupid Boy) is a 2004 film directed by Lionel Baier.
Main cast
- Pierre Chatagny – Loïc
- Natacha Koutchoumov – Marie
- Rui Pedro Alves – Rui
- Lionel Baier – Lionel
This French language film tells the story of 20-year-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.