This is the second vertical AI BL drama I've sat through, and honestly I went in knowing better. I had it on while I was doing cardio at the gym, and what struck me was just how much the plot echoed the last one I watched. Same step brother romance angle, same mystery girlfriend showing up near the end, same extra guy pining after one of the leads. Genuinely the only thing going for it was the runtime, the whole thing wrapped up in forty five minutes flat. The setup kicks off with Finn moving schools because his mom just married into money. He finds out his new step brother Aiden goes to the same place, and he's warned to keep his distance from him. Their first run in at school is rocky, just like you'd expect, but there's this odd pull between them neither can shake off. Finn keeps telling himself not to read into it because Aiden's straight and openly homophobic. Things shift when some kids start bullying Finn and the student council president, Ryan, steps in to ...
Set in Montreal in winter where the city is snowed in, a middle age businessman Christophe meets Micha, a Russian acrobat recovering from a horrific injury, while house-hunting. Christophe takes the apartment and the two begin a torrid love affair full of dom-sub relationship and maybe a little love and care for each other (?). Micha wants no strings attached and hence don't exchange even names. Christophe has a very sick mother who he is dealing with and Micha has become very bitter and jealous because his acrobat routine is now being done by someone else. The film ends as random as it starts. Micha causes the new acrobat to have an accident on purpose on the final day, there by taking his revenge (he thinks his accident was die to the rival member) and then leaves Christophe on his own.
Yes, there is nothing much more than what I have mentioned above as the summary of the film. The relationship between the two men is sort of toxic. There is forced sex, but there is full on sex scenes. The dick is shown hard, full on suck and fuck and even ejaculation. The film goes whole hog. I guess the idea was to show that both these men are using sex to let out their frustration, anger and loneliness. Of course, its clear Micha is using Christophe, for whom this is probably the first m2m experience for his money, food, housing but also gives him great fulfilling sex. It wasn't very clear what issues does Christophe have with his mother. Maybe, that would have made things very relevant. Other than this, we have plenty of long drawn shots of construction sites for whatever reasons and then a lot of shots of acrobats practicing, which was actually quite decent but after a while gets very repetitive. Remove all this and the 2 hour plus movie could be reduced to under 40 minutes. Thankfully both the men are good looking and doesn't hurt to watch full blown sex scenes once in a while. There are unexpected moments like when Micha gives Christophe a golden shower or when the latter burns Micha's back with cigarette butts.
This is the problem with "arthouse" cinema. Sometimes makers are so much in their own head, they forget that the film needs to mean something to some section of the audience, at least. (3.5/10)
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