Boys stay boys

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Movie
German title Boys stay boys
Original title Les beaux gosses
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2009
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director Riad Sattouf
script Riad Sattouf,
Marc Syrigas
production Anne-Dominique Toussaint
music Flairs ,
Riad Sattouf
camera Dominique Colin
cut Virginie Bruant
occupation

Boys stay boys (Original title: Les beaux gosses ) is a French comedy film directed by Riad Sattouf from 2009.

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14-year-old Hervé and his best friend Camel are among the unpopular outsiders at their school. Both of them have never had a girlfriend and are in the last third of their class in terms of performance. The only women they know are the lingerie models from the catalogs, to whom they regularly masturbate together. Hervé also regularly observes a woman in the neighboring house undressing from his room, if he is not disturbed by his mother, who has an extremely relaxed relationship to sexuality and so regularly involves her son in unpleasant conversations.

One day Hervé seriously injured his nose while doing school sports and was amazed when the pretty Aurore spoke to him on the bus. Although he assumes that she doesn't want to know anything about him, she helps him with his essay on rapper 50 Cent and shortly afterwards invites him to a party. Hervé manages to shake Camel off, but cannot prevent his mother from accompanying him to the party. In the end, she gets together with the father of a classmate. After the party, Aurore is initially unsure whether she wants to be with Hervé, as she actually wants to wait, but finally decides for him.

Hervé shares his new experiences with Camel, often exaggerating. After Aurore threw Hervé out of the apartment because he had ejaculated while kissing, he claims in front of Camel that he slept with Aurore. Because Aurore's friends beat up Hervé at school the next day because he should keep his hands off Aurore, she in turn saves him. She kisses him in front of everyone, which leads to speculation, so in the end it is said that Aurore would kiss anyone for ten euros. Aurore learns this during an RPG she takes part in with Hervé and his friends. She leaves the game outraged. Hervé believes that she broke up with him and tests the new knowledge he has gained about women through Aurore: after a short time he finds a new girlfriend and only now notices that Aurore never wanted to leave him. Torn to and fro, he wants to choose her again, but she can only offer him her friendship. In the end, Hervé stays with his new girlfriend, but is still good friends with Aurore. Camel has finally found his first girlfriend, just as Hervé's mother finally seems to have a steady partner in the father of her schoolmate.

production

Boys stay boys was the directorial debut of Riad Sattouf, who had worked as a comic artist up until then. He was also involved in the script, which is partly autobiographical, and wrote the film music. He was seen as a porn actor in a cameo . The film was shot in Paris and Rennes in autumn 2008 . The College Madame de Sévigné in Gagny served as Hervé's school . Mimi Lempicka created the costumes, Marie Cheminal created the film .

The film premiered on May 17, 2009 at the Cannes International Film Festival as part of the Quinzaine des réalisateurs series. It was shown in French cinemas on June 10, 2009, where it was seen by around 909,000 visitors. The film was shown in German cinemas from July 1, 2010 and was released on DVD in October 2010.

criticism

The film service found that boys remain boys at times "a refreshingly authentic excursion into the depths of puberty, at times a shoddy teen comedy", but "despite its independent, raw, unvarnished appearance, its content does not have the relevant Hollywood genre models out [comes] ”. For Der Spiegel , the film was an “understanding and crudely comical outsider portrait” as well as a “loving and unadorned look at teenage needs”. “An honest, but also quite clichéd look into the depths of puberty,” said Cinema .

Awards

Riad Sattouf and Anne-Dominique Toussaint received the prize for the best first work at the 35th César Awards 2010 . Noémie Lvovsky was nominated for a César in the Best Supporting Actress category, while Vincent Lacoste received a César nomination for Best Newcomer . Vincent Lacoste and Anthony Sonigo won a Prix ​​Lumières for Best Young Actor . In 2010 Riad Sattouf received an Étoile d'Or for the best film debut and was also nominated for another award for best film.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of Release for Boys Remains Boys . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 570 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for boys stay boys . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Secrets tournage - Auto-biographique? . allocine.fr.
  4. ↑ Cast & Crew. jungsbleibenjungs.de, accessed on July 16, 2014 .
  5. ^ C'est le collège des "Beaux Gosses" . leparisien.fr, June 16, 2009.
  6. ↑ See allocine.fr
  7. ↑ Boys Remain Boys in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed March 4, 2012.
  8. ↑ Andreas Banaski: puberty comedy "boys stay boys": relief in the men's sock . spiegel.de, July 1, 2010.
  9. ↑ See boys stay boys on cinema.de