Review: "Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo"
Monday, January 30, 2017 at 7:00PM This review was originally published in Nathaniel's column at Towleroad
You've seen the moment many times. Two future lovers see each other in a crowd, and something clicks. In West Side Story that moment prompts a blur on the edges of the frame, with only the lovers in focus. In La La Land, it takes the form of a camera push-in with all the lights, but for a spotlight, going out. The moment is so familiar in fantasies (and desired in reality) that there's even an old showtune about it.
Some enchanted evening, you will meet a stranger
You will meet a stranger across a crowded room.
And somehow you know, you know even then...
The last place you might expect to see it deployed is in a new French film which begins with 18 minutes of explicit activity in a sex club...