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          11. – 22. March 2026

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              A Very Good Boy

              Sébastien Lifshitz / France / 2026 / 87 min

              An aging French gay porn icon recounts a life story worthy of a novel. A beautiful and existential film that also tells the forgotten story of the gay rights movement with erotic power and style.

              And the award for the most unforgettable opening scene of the year goes to… ‘A Very Good Boy’, which begins where many films end. The family is gathered and a young couple is about to get married. But then they take off all their clothes and put on boxing gloves. The pieces of the story slowly and surely fall into place as an elderly man recounts his unusual life story in detail, from his upbringing in the Pyrenees to a career as a gay star in the heyday of porn in the 1970s.

              Filmmaker Sébastien Lifshitz has an eminent grasp of his story – and so has Claude Loir, who is both the film’s protagonist and narrator. His life is worthy of a novel and is also a tale of a larger gay movement and a compelling struggle for liberation in a conservative era. With fabulous scenes from the Parisian underground clubs of the 1960s and beautiful nature shots from today’s Pyrenees, Lifshitz continues his cinematic unwinding of the overlooked chapters of LGBTQ+ history, where both May ‘68 and the juicy ‘Cinéma X’ of the 1970s are revolutionary turning points. Beautiful and moving, and magnificently told.