Is this technically a gay show? Even after getting through the whole thing, that's still kind of tricky to answer. There's never any physical intimacy shown between the two leads, not even a single kiss. What it gives you instead is something that goes way deeper than that. It traces an emotional bond that spans a full decade between two guys who are both dealing with their own baggage, and what they share basically amounts to being soulmates. The story moves across Japan, South Korea, and Berlin. Honestly, whether people want to call what they have a romantic relationship or not doesn't really matter to me. A relationship doesn't need a label like boyfriends attached to it to actually mean something. And closeness doesn't need to be physical to feel genuine. What this show captures is something quieter but way more powerful, a bond rooted in understanding, respect, and just showing up for each other. Across eight episodes, each running 35 to 45 minutes, this is one...
Middle aged gay couple Patrick and Rene, live in an empty seaside dance hall on the coast of France. One of them, Patrick the writer , was raised there and he’s come back to live and work in the old building. He’s turned the vacant ballroom over to his boyfriend René the artist as a studio/performance space where René gets busy working up a show for the gallery owner Maurice. Rene also runs a porn website with pictures of his toy bears doing pretty much nothing. When René comes across a 60 year old photo of a couple of music hall comedians, he starts seeing the two comics everywhere he looks and one of them seems to be himself. He then is introduced to the idea of parallel universes and starts to wonder if he might really be one of the comics in another universe. When Patrick leaves for the day, and René is knocking around alone in the empty building, strange things start to happen... things that seem to originate down in the dark dirty space below the dance floor.
There really isn't much of a story here. We seem to just go along for the ride as René spirals out of control. The effect even spreads to Maurice, who has come to check up on René’s progress on the upcoming show and there the film abruptly ends. There isa. Nice sex scene between the gay couple in the beginning but again that adds literally nothing to the story. It was just a bad bad film and nothing about this is interesting. (0/10)
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