Stupid Boy (film)

Stupid Boy (French: Garçon stupide) is a 2004 film directed by Lionel Baier.[1]

Stupid Boy
FrenchGarçon stupide
Directed byLionel Baier
Written byLionel Baier,
Laurent Guido
Produced byRobert Boner
StarringPierre Chatagny,
Natacha Koutchoumov
Distributed byPicture This!
Release date
  • 10 March 2004 (2004-03-10) (Switzerland)
Running time
94 minutes
CountrySwitzerland
LanguageFrench

Plot

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.

Cast
  • Pierre Chatagny as Loïc
  • Natacha Koutchoumov as Marie
  • Rui Pedro Alves as Rui
  • Lionel Baier as Lionel

References
  1. Wesley Morris, "Search for life's meaning defines 'Garçon'". Boston Globe, February 24, 2006.


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