This French coming-of-homosexual-age tale ("I'm a faggot," repeated eight or nine times to the face in the bathroom mirror), against a distant backdrop of the Algerian War, is thoroughly serious, intelligent, tasteful, sensitive -- and unmemorable. Possibly a few recollectable moments of the honor guard in open-air repose (sprawling on the grass, smoking, putting on white gloves) before a military funeral. Possibly another one, though preferably not, of a loony-bin apparition of the dead soldier accompanied by Barber's Adagio for Strings. (Oliver Stone has no monopoly on dead soldiers to the tune of the Adagio.) With Frederic Gorny, Gael Morel, Elodie Bouchez; written and directed by André Téchiné. (1994) — Duncan Shepherd
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