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Come Undone

2000, Movie, NR, 90 mins

Come Undone: Review

COME UNDONE | PRESQUE RIEN
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It may star handsome young teenagers cavorting in the summer surf on the northern coast of France, but this is no frothy gay romance sur la plage. Sébastien Lifshitz's romantic drama is a surprisingly serious look at first love and the havoc it can wreak on young hearts and minds — a moody, subtle drama that has more in common with the tragedy of Endless Love than WHERE THE BOYS ARE. Eighteen-year-old Mathieu (Jérémie Elkaïm) is once again spending the holidays at his parent's summer home in Pornichet, but this time there's a difference. His mother (Dominique Reymond) is chronically ill and mostly keeps to her bed, where she's cared for by Mathieu's harried aunt, Annick (Marie Matheron). Mathieu's father, unable to deal with his wife's illness, has stayed behind in Paris, leaving Mathieu and his sour younger sister, Sarah (Laetitia Legrix), free to spend the afternoons at the beach. There, Mathieu catches the eye of Cédric (Stephane Rideau), a handsome waffle vendor from the nearby city of Nantes, and what begins with a mild flirtation under Sarah's suspicious eye quickly leads to moonlight trysts on the beach. Mathieu finds himself staying out all night, lying to Annick about where he's been and coming to terms with the fact that he's gay. But Mathieu really knows very little about Cédric, whom he learns is a high-school dropout and ex-hustler with an explosive temper; Cédric, meanwhile, knows even less about Mathieu. Lifshitz and his co-writer Stéphane Bouquet use a complicated triple flashback structure to tell their story — we see Mathieu under psychiatric observation a year after the events at the beach, as well as a few weeks later when he's released and returns to Pornichet in the dead of winter — and the film unfolds more like a dark mystery than a sunny romance. Lifshitz and Bouquet pose a series of intriguing questions — Why is Mathieu under psychiatric observation? What's wrong with his mother? — then drops clues without necessarily providing definitive answers. Some may find Lifshitz's unwillingness to tie up every loose end frustrating, but the result is an incisive, often graphic portrait of a troubled young man who, at the end of the film, is still struggling against himself. leave a comment --Ken Fox
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