The Flamboyants

Billie Sorribès & Selva Gonzalez / Marie Point / France & Chile

In a residential neighborhood, a house like any other. Gilles, 55, under house arrest with an electronic bracelet, welcomes us. He’s preparing for a chemsex party and explains his relationship to sexuality, drugs, and isolation. Karen arrives, a longtime friend of Gilles’s, who, while sharing her life story marked by poverty and motherhood, uses a dating app to invite new participants.
Ramiz, 30, arrives next. Married and a father, he left the Roma camp where he lives to come to the house. Gilles organizes the GHB and drug doses, noting the times in a notebook as if to maintain control over the situation. Bodies draw closer, conversations flow freely, and the participants seek a moment of connection. Ramiz and Gilles go to the bedroom next to the living room for a more intimate moment.
Via Karen’s phone, Seb, 25, joins us in the house. Exhausted after several days without sleep, he brings a more intense and chaotic energy. As consumption increases, time fragments, reality blurs.The characters constantly move between the bedroom and the living room. Seb eventually loses control after a GHB overdose before falling asleep on the sofa, triggering a shift in atmosphere.
The characters converse more calmly. We are then invited to go into the bedroom ourselves. Upon entering the room, the narrative leaves the apartment to give way to a collective vision of a party in a club a huge contrast with the moment before. Then the club become the bedroom, we find ourselves in the middle of the tangled characters. Their bodies seem to sparkle like a bonfire
Finally we find ourselves alone with Gilles in the living room, melancholic. He opens the shutters, letting in the daylight. We leave the house, the credits appear in the sky.