Review by Sammie
By: Sammie
Yes, this film is may many things to the many reviews: '. I was mesmerized by the sublime but artistic impressionism. Minuses: a bit slow-paced, repetitive exterior scenes and cityscapes. Pluses: acrobatic scenes, impressionistic composition, edit...
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Yes, this film is may many things to the many reviews: '. I was mesmerized by the sublime but artistic impressionism. Minuses: a bit slow-paced, repetitive exterior scenes and cityscapes. Pluses: acrobatic scenes, impressionistic composition, editing, cinematography, sparse dialogue but especially the two handsome and power-struggled lead performances...all superior to brilliant. And the full-blown close-up sex scenes, facial and otherwise (with some kink)...Hot, Hot, Hot!
Review by RogerLindo
By: RogerLindo
I admired the chemistry that the two leads had. I enjoyed the sex scenes.
Review by Very sensual movie
By: Very sensual movie
Both the leads are hot with hairy chests, the movie is full of sensuous scenes which I loved very much. I skipped the portions regarding the lead's mother as my Mother died in June of this year due to Covid. Please watch the movie for the scenes and ...
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Both the leads are hot with hairy chests, the movie is full of sensuous scenes which I loved very much. I skipped the portions regarding the lead's mother as my Mother died in June of this year due to Covid. Please watch the movie for the scenes and the hot hairy chests which I loved very much.
Review by Nice movie
By: Nice movie
Nice story, nice movie. I recommend watching it. On top, it has great fully explicit sex scenes that will get you mastur.....
Review by SoraQ
By: SoraQ
This Film was just Incredible and the sex scenes where very Steamy acting was Incredible and Story was great, Anyone who says otherwise about this film is an Idiot and knows no better.. I Highly Recommend It you will not be disappointed Trust me
Review by Seiko
By: Seiko
knowing me as a forever art house film buff, me mates got me to watch brando's last tango in paris the weekend before and it definitely resonates !
very well acted well written wonderfully directed beauuuuuuuuuuuutifully shoot and at times quite...
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knowing me as a forever art house film buff, me mates got me to watch brando's last tango in paris the weekend before and it definitely resonates !
very well acted well written wonderfully directed beauuuuuuuuuuuutifully shoot and at times quite moving as well. this is a very loved project by the creative team indeed, ang lee watch out ! ^^
GAY FILM OF THE YEAR 2020 DEFINITELY !!!!!
Review by Charley2
By: Charley2
I saw this film on Dekkoo. It was shot in Montreal in French and subtitled but had two hot lead actors. An hour could have been cut from the film with the deletion of the underlying story of the deteriorating health of the mother of one of the two le...
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I saw this film on Dekkoo. It was shot in Montreal in French and subtitled but had two hot lead actors. An hour could have been cut from the film with the deletion of the underlying story of the deteriorating health of the mother of one of the two leads. The sex scenes were steamy except there were no full frontal shots. The ending was perplexing, so because of this I would not watch it again nor recommend it.
Review by Amos Lassen
By: Amos Lassen
"THE ACROBAT" (L'Acrobate)
A Hook Up
Amos Lassen
Canadian writer-director Rodrique Jean's "Acrobat (L'Acrobate)" shocks us with scenes of graphic sex and BDSM. Set in Montreal amid the endless construction of a hi-ri...
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"THE ACROBAT" (L'Acrobate)
A Hook Up
Amos Lassen
Canadian writer-director Rodrique Jean's "Acrobat (L'Acrobate)" shocks us with scenes of graphic sex and BDSM. Set in Montreal amid the endless construction of a hi-rise apartment, depressed businessman Christophe (Sébastien Ricard) meets an angst-filled, disabled squatter Micha (Yury Paulau). They hook up but they never exchange names even when former acrobat Micha moves in. Both men are keeping secrets, and both let go of their dark anguish/despair on one another via sado-masochistic sex.
I am quite sure that those unaccustomed to so much sex will not like this film but it is quite an elegant, visceral film that is quite brave. We see erections, fellatio, masturbation and penetration. It is the particular approach of a filmmaker, that makes this so interesting.
In this ghostly space of a multi-story building still under construction, towers of a cold, distant downtown Montreal, bring together a humanity that seeks and never finds itself. Prevailing morality totally disappears and this is the vision of a Rodrigue Jean. It is radical and its exacerbated jeopardy in terms of male homosexuality in Quebec cinema is finally on display.
Sébastien Ricard with a white ghost-face at first transforms his facial appearance into something more assertive and warmly human once sex takes place. Yuri Paulau walks in through the front door and submits his athletic-acrobat body even when he is on crutches. Between too much or not enough, Rodrigue Jean offers his own moral about urban solitude.
Every 20 or so minutes, there is sex and not love. This is about the differences between being out-of-control and in-control in an in-and-out-of-control situation..."where the dominated is in the dominion of the dominator...but, not at his mercy...indeed, the complexity of the situation is far from clear...it's the submissive who's righting the wrongs and re-writing the rules. Having lost everything, he's calling all the shots...self-esteem may be the only things he has left and that's about to go tits up...or, is it?"
For some, [sexual] humiliation is the ultimate expression of self-worth yet we wonder why some people want to be humiliated. Who really has the power in these situations? We see a fascinating power struggle that is artful and pornographic. It is uncomfortable to watch because we are aroused by what we see.
There are two interesting stories (although neither are fully fleshed) and time seems to be on unnecessary cityscapes and acrobatic sequences that do nothing to propel their stories forward. Still, this disconnection may have been the director's intention...these men connect [only] physically.
The film is beautifully shot film and it is challenging but it takes a while to become involved. There are many gaps in the plot for us to possibly work out what is going through the minds of these two very complicated men where sex is merely a release for all their internalized rage.
The sexual explicitness doesn't mean "The Acrobat" should be dismissed as pornography since this is a tale of anger and resentment that must find some outlet.