In the spirit of other successful high school coming out tales such as Edge of Seventeen, Dare and Get Real, Because of a Boy is an important entry into the New Queer Cinema canon.Vincent is an average high school boy, a good student, and a star swimmer. Life literally goes by swimmingly, that is until handsome new kid Benjamin (Jrmie Elkam, Presque Rien) arrives at the school, kicking up some serious inner turmoil. You see, Vincent is beginning to come to terms with his sexuality, yet he is terrified of upsetting feisty girlfriend Nomie and his conservative family. With passions riding high, Vincent’s idyllic life begins to crumble, culminating in the school messageboard being covered in graffiti labeling him a 'fag'. Slowly but surely, Vincent adapts to life as a young gay man, and finds that it isn't such a terrifying thing after all.
While holidaying at his mother's summer house in Brittany Mathieu has a summer of love.
Pio Marma�, J�r�mie Elka�m and Eddy Mitchell star in this French drama that follows the efforts of a man determined to find his own identity. With his cantankerous father Georges (Mitchell) having succumbed to a neurodegenerative disease after suffering a stroke, and his brother Luc (Elka�m) afflicted by manic depression, Romain (Marma�) has finally had enough of being the dependable 'rock' of the family. To this end, and with his 30th birthday rapidly approaching, he decides to grab the bull...
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