Yann Gonzalez

Paris, summer 1979. Anne is a producer of cheap gay porn. When Lois, her editor and companion, leaves her, she attempts to get her back by making a more ambitious film with the flamboyant Archibald.Read More »

With the soberly lyrical and infinitely gracious Les Îles (Islands), Yann Gonzalez gives his personal version of La Ronde by Max Ophüls. The endless circularity in the mechanisms of desire are conveyed in joyful sequencing from the actors to the spectators. Instead of desire, the need for the theatre, maliciously revealed with the forces of cinema (the opening game of the frame scale) and the pleasures of the eye (the direct elation), of the ear (the deferred elation, with the sound recording). At the crossroads of the two given entities (the theatre stage and the frame of a shot), which are the body of this beautiful erotic poem, the islands bear wings.Read More »

Popstar Oliver Sim is the main guest of a talk-show that soon slides into a surreal journey of love, shame and blood.Read More »

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A slut, a star, a stud and a teen all walk into an orgy… If you think there’s a punchline to this joke, then you haven’t yet seen You and the Night (Les Rencontres d’apres minuit), a visually exquisite, occasionally hilarious, and intermittently trying meditation on sex, love, dreams, death, camp and kitsch that marks a promising feature debut from French filmmaker Yann Gonzalez. Picture The Breakfast Club remixed by Jean Cocteau, Paul Morrissey, Dario Argento and Peter Greenaway, and you’ll get an inkling of what this avant-garde item has in store.Read More »