Pourquoi Pas Moi?
(1999)
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This coming out tale involves three lesbians, a gay sports fanatic, a bullfighter, the Virgin Mary singing Patsy Cline's "Crazy," and more unusual characters. |
A whiff of old-fashioned theatricality pervades this determinedly modern “glad to be gay” comedy. Just about everyone harbours a guilty secret or a pernicious prejudice, as a quartet of comic-book artists and their parents gather for a come-clean dinner date. Sadly, writer/director Stéphane Giusti's screenplay is so lacking in wit and surprise that each revelation arrives with a thud of inevitability. The performances are equally predictable, although this again is down to the fact that Giusti trades almost exclusively in caricatures, denying his eager cast the opportunity to explore a situation fraught with emotional and comic potential. Amiable, but slight.
