475: Grand Ecole (review)...
And seeing as that last one went much better for me, here's one I saw a while ago:
"Grand Ecole"
Just imagine the slant over that e (like 'ay')... I'm too lazy to do proper characters.
Anyway, I forget all the characters names, so this may get muddled, but basically, Gregori Baquet is beautiful. And blonde. And delightfully short (I like short guys). And looks good without his shirt off. And is also a really good actor (and a singer, apparently). Did I mention I thought he was gorgeous?
Also gorgeous is his girlfriend (Alice Taglioni, I think)... scarily so. In fact, one wonders why Gregori is hooking up with the Muslim guy with the unibrow. Not that I don't delight in a Mid-Eastern guy quite a bit (see: my first love), but unibrows disgust me, sorry.
Anyway, we get a really pretty love scene with some mirrors and gratuitous full-frontal on both guys, and a delightful scene in a train station (ah, le grand ecole de la vie! The great school of life!), and that comes in the middle of the film. The rest, well...
If this all confuses you, that's okay; Gregori's Russo-Franco beauty distracted me. Basically, Gregori goes to bussiness school, and has two roomates: a cute little redhead and a classicaly handsome French brunette... who he has a MAJOR crush on. Equally gorgeous girlfriend finds out and decides they should have a contest to see who can seduce him first! Gregori goes along, 'cause he doesn't want to hurt her feelings... meanwhile having an affair with Muslim painter guy, either to distract himself from hawt roomate, or because he's actually a little intrigued by him. Methinks a little of both.
Meanwhile, girlfriend--of course--gets to roomate first, and they have a rather hawt make-out in the next room. Everyone of course hears, there is much existential/psychological (very muddled and confusingly wordy) five-way conversation in tight Euro-underwear, and then we have the end, which is the most intriguing of all...
Basically, Gregori might stay with girlfriend; they love each other, after all, or they make a good show of it. I'm not sure whether we're supposed to doubt this or not. Gregori ditches Muslim guy at the same time roomate ditches him, very emotional. Muslim guy actually loves him. Gregori gets on a train, film ends.
I'm not sure what we, as the audience, are supposed to take away from this film. That getting a little crush on a guy will cause you to question your sexuality and fuck a Muslim painter? That bisexual mindgames will cement your relationship with your model/activist girlfriend? In either case, I'd be offended, except...
ACTORS SO PRETTY. AND GOOD. MAKE ME BELIEVE RIDICULOUS EXISTENTIAL EMOTIONS... OR MAKE ME NOT CARE. GRRRR!
Anyway, Gregori Baquet is hawt and should be in more movies, pleaserightnowkthnx!
(Oh, I actually have italics on this thing? Why have I been doing *this* all this time! ZOMG!)
Oh... four stars, by the way...