Close to Leo

Tout contre Léo

France

2002

88 Min

Color

1.77:1

French

Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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PROD Sophie Deloche, Serge Moati

SCR Christophe Honoré, Diastème

CAST Pierre Mignard, Yaniss Lespert, Marie Bunel, Rodolphe Pauly, Jérémie Lippmann, Dominic Gould, Louis Gonzales, Joana Preiss, Julien Honoré, Alex Beaupain, Assaad Bouab

MUSIC Alex Beaupain, Doc Mateo

SOUND Michel Casang

Synopsis

From celebrated auteur Christophe Honoré (Les chansons d’amour and Dans Paris) comes an acclaimed tale about family and brotherly understanding, adapted from one of his own novels.

Leo is the eldest of four brothers, of whom Marcel, age 10, is the youngest. With their young parents, they are a happy and close-knit family. One evening, Marcel overhears the family discussing something about Leo that they wish to keep a secret from him. Although he yearns to know the truth, nobody can bring themselves to speak openly about it.

Eventually, Leo takes his younger brother to Paris so that he can visit an old boyfriend and explain both himself and his situation to Marcel, who in turn shows an understanding and fraternal love that transcends the expectations his family had of him. –Peccadillo Pictures

Director

Christophe Honoré

After moving to Paris in 1995, he wrote articles in the “Les Cahiers du Cinéma.” He started writing soon-after. His 1996 book Tout contre Léo (Close to Leo) talks about HIV and is aimed at young adults; he made it into a movie in 2002. He wrote other books for young adults throughout the late 1990s. His first play, Les Débutantes, was performed at Avignon’s Off Festival in 1998. In 2005, he returns to Avignon to present his latest creation, Dionysos impuissant, in the “In” Festival; Joana Preiss and Louis Garrel, who has acted in a number of Honoré films, played the leads.

A well-known director, he is considered an “auteur” in French Cinema. His 2006 film “Dans Paris” has led him to be considered by French critics as the heir to the Nouvelle Vague Cinema. In 2007, Les Chansons d’amour was one of the films selected to be in competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.1 Some of his movies or screenplays (like Les filles ne savent pas nager, Dix-sept fois Cécile Cassard and Les… read more