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Summary: Man's Best Friend
Review: "Foegi is a Bastard" ("F. Est un Salaud") is a nicely acted, small, Swiss film on a destructive gay relationship. Beni, very well acted by Vincent Branchet, is a sixteen-year old who gets an immediate attraction to a twenty-six-year old lead guitarist named Foegi {or Fogi if you ignore the umlaut}, also well acted by Frederic Andrau. Foegi sings in excellent English for a rock band called "The Minks". Beni exits his fatherless family and his high school to move in with Foegi. Beni is eager to do anything to please Foegi. Unfortunately Foegi comes with the wrong baggage. Foegi has a history of drug dealing and thinks old people (40, say) should consider committing suicide. When "The Minks" start running out of gas, Foegi gets into conflicts with some other band members and decides to take a trip to Lebanon to get hashish for dealing. Beni feels lonely and lets himself be picked up by a psychiatrist. When Foegi returns, the tryst is forgiven, but it gives Foegi an idea of how he can make money by renting out Beni's time. Foegi is tiring of Beni's clinging and of life in general. Foegi makes light of Beni's eagerness to please by having Beni strip and pretend to be a pet dog. Beni takes to the role and makes the initial acquaintance of a (symbolic)white dog. Foegi likes his distance. As Foegi continues drifting downward, Beni becomes the primary breadwinner and manager of the household. Troubling thoughts emerge when another Mink member commits suicide. Eventually Foegi's demons take them down to a beach at St. Tropez, where the movie resolves. The supporting actors all perform solidly. The script is quite good, at least as subtitles. Both Beni and Foegi have more extensive nude scenes than would normally appear in American films. There are no extra features, other than a trailer for "The Blue Hour", a good film by the same director. Beni and Foegi are believable characters in a relationship whose decline entertains while heading toward its inevitable climax.
Rating:
Summary: Man's Best Friend
Review: "Foegi is a Bastard" ("F. Est un Salaud") is a nicely acted, small, Swiss film on a destructive gay relationship. Beni, very well acted by Vincent Branchet, is a sixteen-year old who gets an immediate attraction to a twenty-six-year old lead guitarist named Foegi {or Fogi if you ignore the umlaut}, also well acted by Frederic Andrau. Foegi sings in excellent English for a rock band called "The Minks". Beni exits his fatherless family and his high school to move in with Foegi. Beni is eager to do anything to please Foegi. Unfortunately Foegi comes with the wrong baggage. Foegi has a history of drug dealing and thinks old people (40, say) should consider committing suicide. When "The Minks" start running out of gas, Foegi gets into conflicts with some other band members and decides to take a trip to Lebanon to get hashish for dealing. Beni feels lonely and lets himself be picked up by a psychiatrist. When Foegi returns, the tryst is forgiven, but it gives Foegi an idea of how he can make money by renting out Beni's time. Foegi is tiring of Beni's clinging and of life in general. Foegi makes light of Beni's eagerness to please by having Beni strip and pretend to be a pet dog. Beni takes to the role and makes the initial acquaintance of a (symbolic)white dog. Foegi likes his distance. As Foegi continues drifting downward, Beni becomes the primary breadwinner and manager of the household. Troubling thoughts emerge when another Mink member commits suicide. Eventually Foegi's demons take them down to a beach at St. Tropez, where the movie resolves. The supporting actors all perform solidly. The script is quite good, at least as subtitles. Both Beni and Foegi have more extensive nude scenes than would normally appear in American films. There are no extra features, other than a trailer for "The Blue Hour", a good film by the same director. Beni and Foegi are believable characters in a relationship whose decline entertains while heading toward its inevitable climax.
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