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Full Speed by Ga?l Morel
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DVD Cover InformationActor: ?lodie Bouchez, Mezziane Bardadi, Pascal Cervo, Romain Auger, St?phane Rideau Director: Ga?l Morel DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Original Language); English (Published); Hungarian (Published) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 85 minutes DVD Release Date: 2005-10-04 Audience Rating: Unrated Studio: Strand Releasing
Movie Reviews of Full SpeedMovie Review: Convoluted Summary: 2 StarsThis is a story that I found extremely confusing. It doesn't matter whether a movie is intended to have gay or straight issues, but you would like to know which direction the main characters take you. Unfortunately, I found no peace watching this movie. It is extremely tragic (as someone gets shot to death right off the beginning of the movie), depressing, and depicts racism (which shows that this problem is universal). There is one consolation, the director must have found all of the most beautiful Arab kids in the entire France, as there are a lot of very athletic, masculine, attractive, mostly Arab men.
The plot concentrates on four young people (late teens or early twenties), Julie, Jimmy (Stephane Rideau of "Come Undone"), Quentin, and Samir. Samir is the boy whose friend gets shot in the beginning, is a beautiful Arab boy. Jimmy, is the rebel rouser, very popular stud whose body he displays as trophy. Quentin is the ambitious published young writer who leaves for Paris after success. Julie was involved first with Quentin, after he left, she becomes involved with Jimmy. And Samir is the only gay person of the group who becomes infatuated with Quentin, but he rejects him because I think he is straight. Quentin exploits Samir for the story of his first love (the boy who got shot) to publish another book.
Samir becomes the target of a racist attack by some guys of the town. Jimmy intervenes to help and gets hit in the head. Jimmy dies from his head injuries. Samir shoots one of the guys involved in the attack, he was a butcher in the local market. The movie ends with the funeral of Jimmy, Samir allowed to attend the funeral but on handcuffs with the police. Quentin had returned earlier to town but ignored all of his old friends. He attended the funeral but he got the same treatment by everybody. Julie is all despondent and very depressed as she lost her love. Quentin try to make up but was rejected. And that is it. The last scene was Quentin running through the fields, stopping to watch a happy family of gypsies singing, I do not know the meaning of that scene.
I found the story interesting but was disappointed of the movie.
Summary of Full SpeedThe wonderful and ambitious film examines issues of race, art and romance both gay and straight in modern France through a quartet of very diverse young friends united by a common factor: their unrequited love for one another.
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