Stupid Boy (film)
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''Stupid Boy'' (french: Garçon stupide) is a 2004 film directed by
Lionel Baier Lionel Baier (born 13 December 1975 in Lausanne) is a Switzerland, Swiss film director. Career Lionel Baier studied Art at University of Lausanne from 1995–98. In 2009, he co-founds the production company Bande à Part films, together with Ur ...
.Wesley Morris
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Plot

This French language film tells the story of 20-year-old Loic, who works by day in a chocolate factory, and by night cruises the internet for sex with older men. His life is a series of pointless anonymous sexual encounters until he meets one man who appears to be interested in him for himself, and not just his body. Loic's journey to self-awareness is told through a series of episodic events, such as the suicide of his best friend, his growing infatuation with a local team's soccer star, a car accident and subsequent hospitalisation which uncomfortably reunites him with his parents. At the end of the film he realizes that he can be his own person and he recites a list of things he will never do in order to fit in and belong.


Cast

* Pierre Chatagny as Loïc * Natacha Koutchoumov as Marie * Rui Pedro Alves as Rui *
Lionel Baier Lionel Baier (born 13 December 1975 in Lausanne) is a Switzerland, Swiss film director. Career Lionel Baier studied Art at University of Lausanne from 1995–98. In 2009, he co-founds the production company Bande à Part films, together with Ur ...
as Lionel


References


External links

* 2004 films 2004 comedy-drama films Swiss LGBT-related films 2000s French-language films LGBT-related drama films 2004 LGBT-related films Gay-related films 2004 comedy films 2004 drama films Swiss comedy-drama films French-language Swiss films {{LGBT-drama-film-stub