Conference bookie::movies

18.0. "J'embrasse pas" by 42712::DUTTONS () Tue Feb 02 1993 08:39

Not sure about this one.

Twenty year old Pierrot leaves his remote village in the Pyrenees for 
Paris, intent on becoming an actor.  Through extreme naivety, Pierrot 
meets a strange variety of people - he has an affair with a middle 
aged woman he had met in Lourdes, gets a terrible job in a hospital 
kitchen, is befriended by and travels to Seville with a famous film 
director - but eventually, out of luck, with his optimism worn down, 
Pierrot resorts to working as a rent boy. He thereby befriends and 
falls in love with a young prostitute, but her pimp boyfriend 
intervenes...

There's something likeable about the odd, flat tone of this film, and 
occasionally it even threatens to develop a sense of humour.  But it's 
so weighed down with false starts and dead ends, and despite some 
original acting by [Pierrot], it's never very believeable.  Worst of 
all is the silly (French!) love interest - les enfants perdus...