Secret kisses
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| German title | Secret kisses |
| Original title | Meringue cachés |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Didier Bivel |
| script | Jérôme Larche |
| production | Elizabeth Arnac |
| music | François-Eudes Chanfrault |
| camera | Claude Garnier |
| cut | Catherine Schwartz |
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Secret kisses (Original title: Baisers cachés ) is a French film by Didier Bivel , which was shot in 2015 and was released in 2016. He tells the coming-out story of two young people in France who both have to deal with their fathers' lack of acceptance in different ways.
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16-year-old Nathan is moving to a new city with his single father. After a few days at school, he is invited to a party. At the party, he kisses a classmate, slightly euphoric. The kiss is secretly photographed and uploaded to Facebook . Nathan begins to run the gauntlet, but (initially) does not reveal that it was Louis he kissed. While Nathan's father grapples with his son's homosexuality, Louis suffers from his father's violent reactions.
It becomes more and more difficult for Nathan at school, culminating in the fact that several schoolmates beat him up in the locker room after sports class. Louis, who is trained as a boxer by his father, stands out. Nathan's injuries ultimately lead to his father accepting his son's sexual orientation (sequence after his son was beaten up and he hugged him after the lacerations: "I'm here").
In the teaching staff there are arguments due to the verbal and physical attacks on Nathan: A teacher at the school outlines herself and appeals to the students to behave more tolerantly.
Louis, on the other hand, initially does not respond to Nathan's attempts to contact him; on the contrary, he wants to distinguish himself in a homophobic environment. Nonetheless, he realizes that he feels drawn to Nathan (unlike his girlfriend, who he has had for a year), and his parents, especially his father, find out about this by reading his laptop and cell phone. When he, however, can not stand it by the pressure to behave "family compliant" more in the home, especially the homophobic father, he runs away and wants by jumping from the roof of a disused factory to commit suicide . Nathan ("Give me your hand") and his father in the background keep him from doing it together. Afterwards he stays with Nathan and his father, Nathan and he get closer through Louis' attempt at contact, accept their homosexuality and become a couple. Nathan's father supports the two of them, having discovered this by chance that night.
While the scenes about Nathan and his father are conclusive, the film now refers to the fact that Louis 'father is looking for the conflict and wants to use brute force to make his son "family-conform", which Louis' father conveys convincingly in the performance, but in the sequence does not seem conclusive. After the film, the trigger is that Louis' father also forbids him to have contact with his younger brother - Theo, who is very fond of his older brother Louis, but has not played a cinematic role until then - and, as it were, "locks" his eldest son away.
The following scenes show that the mother agrees with her husband, pushed by his questions, but breaks up. She takes Louis' little brother, Theo, with her and ends her life in wealth (the father is a recognized doctor in a private clinic) and continues her life in a specially rented apartment: on a platform it comes to a final stormy one as well a tender embrace between Nathan and Louis - in the presence of Louis' former girlfriend, who also accepts this.
After the film, this sequence, between the separation from the father and his wife and the universally accepted hug, should have happened within just a few weeks: The chronological sequence is formulated much less stringently, in contrast to the opening story about Nathan and the changed relationship with his father.
In the final scene, Louis meets his father again on the sidelines of a boxing match. But this turns away from his son again. The final sequence shows Nathan's father, who, putting his arm on Louis' shoulders, while the shocked Louis looks after his father's car driving away, says: "He still needs time".
Web links
- Secret Kisses in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of the film (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Secret Kisses . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 165631 / v).