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Close (2022)

Léo: Imagine that you are a very small chicken. You just hatched. You just opened your eyes for the first time. All ducks are yellow. And you too... But you are much more beautiful than the rest. You are special.

A happy 35 to beautiful gay Belgian director Lukas Dhont today! I never saw his controversial first film Girl (which has a cisgender actor playing a trans girl) but I loved his follow-up Close very very very much -- here is my review. If you still haven't seen it fix that! It's a stunning rumination on the fraught bonds between confused young boys that took me right back to the extraordinary pain and beauty of those years and those relationships of my own. Anyway checking to see what Dhont's got cooking...

... since it's been four years, my man, and I see that he has already finished his follow-up ! Indeed because I ignore Cannes stuff as much as possible I am just realizing it's screening at Cannes this very week! Never come to me for Cannes stuff y'all. I purposefully drag my feet. Anyway it's called Coward and it's about two Belgian soldiers who, during World War I find romance (I'm assuming) while staging cross-dressing theatrical performances in the field. There is a great chat with Dhont over at THR from just two days ago -- read it here. Can't wait to see this!