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PARIS 05:59: THEO & HUGO
(THEO ET HUGO DANS LE MEME BATEAU) (France 2016) ****
Directed by Olivier Ducastel et Jacques Martineau

Review by Gilbert Seah

Truly sexual films just do not just contain sex scenes anymore. Truly sexual films use sex scenes to push their audience past some new psychological frontier.
And gay films do just that, pushing their audiences past boundaries straight films never reached before. BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR (L’HISTORE D’ADELE) portrayed very long hot steamy lesbian sexy scenes never dared before in a commercial movie. French Directors Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau do the same for the gay male sex movie.

Directors Ducastel and Martineau have already wowed gay audiences with their earlier films THE ADVENTURES OF FELIX and COTE D’AZUR. Their new movie on first love begins with an X-rated 18 minutes sequence in a sex club which commonly also exists as a bath house (spa).

The sex scenes are tastefully done, as evident in the light shone on the two when the two first meet. Their bodies glide towards each other before they begin copulating. Almost all is laid bare except the ejaculation which is assumed to have occurred when Theo reaches for the tissues.

Theo and Hugo meet and have steamy sex for the first time amidst a sea of naked men. Despite the graphic setting, the love comes across as a sweet and ‘innocent’ one which is put to the test after they leave the ‘club’. Theo (Francois Nambot) confesses that he had f***ed Hugo (Geoffrey Couet) sans condom. The subject of a.i.d.s was addressed in Ducastel and Martineau’s first film THE ADVENTURES OF FELIX in which Felix , the lead character had to deal with the disease. The couple Theo and Hugo face the same demise, but times have changed in 30 years. The majority of hiv positive people now survive under medication. Theo enters the emergency ward of the Parisienne hospital to get medication to prevent himself from getting the virus. This is in contrast to the directors first film, where Felix struggles to deal with his upcoming death from the disease.

The couple also meet a Syrian kebab worker and an old lady in the metro. In a short few minutes, these two deliver an abridged but very effective view on life as they see it. Despite the film dwelling on two characters, their apparently unaffected lives in the world are put into perspective rather brilliantly. All matters in the short time the film is set.

The two young actors have to perform as well as act their roles. The two newcomers, Nambot and Couet exceed expectations. They are extremely cute with matched body types.

The rest of the film, as hinted by the film title ends almost at 6 am in the morning in Paris. It is an absorbing film which turns out to be a sweet romantic film about the innocence of first love. A daring film that demands to be seen if one can bear the extended sex scenes.

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