Sun Nov 19
7.15pm , 4.00pm
7.15pm , 4.00pm
Thirst Street
film
4 Days in France
This event took place Oct 20 - Oct 22, 2017
** Members of Alliance Française receive the NWFF member ticket rate at the box office with proof of membership! **
$12 General Admission
$9 Student/Senior
$7 Member
Jérôme Reybaud
France
2017
2h 17m
About
What if Eric Rohmer made a film about gay hook up apps? Jérôme Reybaud’s remarkably accomplished feature debut, 4 Days in France, is a sly and sophisticated take on gay romance in the 21st century. On a seemingly ordinary night in Paris, Pierre takes one last look his lover Paul’s sleeping body, then steals away into the early morning light. Where he’s headed, neither of them know. Pierre’s only guide is his Grindr app, which leads him on a series of encounters with an indelible cast of characters across the French countryside. Paul sets out after him, using his own phone to track Pierre’s movements in a strange and wonderful game of Grindr cat-and-mouse.
“A kind of ode to cruising writ large… There’s something endearing, if not uncanny, about the way the film evokes universal truths about erotic wandering through the extremely specific figure of the French gay man.” – Diego Semerene, Slant
“A uniquely tender film, and a wonderful ode to the intimacy that comes from casual encounters with perfect (and on occasion beautiful) strangers. A first film that is born from a filmmaker who already knows a great deal about sex, love, and cinema.” – Ira Sachs