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Rating: NONE

Release Date: Jul 12, 2000

Running Time: 82 mins.

Additional Notes: dialogue French

Country Of Origin: France

Country Of Origin: Japan

starring: Bernard Giraudeau, Malik Zidi, Ludivine Sagnier, Anna Thomson

director: Francois Ozon

A 1970's Germany, May-December gay romance goes wrong: Leopold, a smug still-hunky 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces fresh-faced, carrot-topped 19-year-old Franz who swiftly moves into his bachelor pad. Their cozy relationship soon sours as Leopold, a kind of gone-to-seed Dirk Bogarde, turns cranky and argumentative. When Franz's buxom blond girlfriend surfaces, and then Leopold's elegant ex (who may or may not have originally been a man) shows up, things get funnier, steamier and a lot more complicated. while charting the relationship between sex and power, in and out of the bedroom.

Passion and kindness fail to coexist in this perverse French-language comedy, adapted from an early stage play by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Story

Set in 1970s Germany, Leopold, a 50-something businessman, picks up and brings home 19-year-old Franz, who is on his way to meet his fiancee. After a speedy, sweet seduction, they set up house and become as comfortable as old, bickering shoes. Perservering Franz plays an apron-sporting housewife to surly, petulant Leopold. But after Anna, Franz's…