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2022 French drama film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Winter Boy (French: Le Lycéen) is a French drama film, directed by Christophe Honoré and released in 2022.[2] The film stars Paul Kircher as Lucas, a gay teenager coping with the sudden and unexpected death of his father in an accident that may or may not have been suicide.[3]
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French | Le Lycéen |
Directed by | Christophe Honoré |
Written by | Christophe Honoré |
Produced by | Philippe Martin David Thion |
Starring | Paul Kircher Juliette Binoche Vincent Lacoste |
Cinematography | Rémy Chevrin |
Edited by | Chantal Hymans |
Music by | Yoshihiro Hanno |
Production companies | Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Cinéma France 2 Cinéma Les Films Pelléas |
Distributed by | Memento Distribution |
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Running time | 122 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Box office | $484,040[1] |
The film's cast also includes Juliette Binoche as Lucas's mother Isabelle, Vincent Lacoste as his older brother Quentin, Adrien Casse as his boyfriend Oscar and Honoré himself as the father,[3] as well as Xavier Giannoli, Pascal Cervo, Wilfried Capet, Jean-Philippe Salerio, Erwan Kepoa Falé, Anne Kessler and Isabelle Thevenoux in supporting roles.
Winter Boy premiered in the Contemporary World Cinema program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival,[4] and screened in competition at the 70th San Sebastián International Film Festival.[5] The film received generally positive reviews, with praise going towards the performances of Kircher, Binoche and Lacoste. For his portrayal of Lucas, Kircher won the Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance and was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actor and the Lumières Award for Best Male Revelation.
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 76% of 25 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.7/10.[6] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 64 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[7] The film received an average rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars on the French website AlloCiné, based on 34 reviews.[8]
Reviewing the film for The New York Times, Devika Girish said that the film "shines when it allows its actors to quietly play out family dynamics, with Lacoste, Binoche and especially Kircher wearing the many shades of grief with effortless, endearing naturalism."[9] Derek Smith of Slant Magazine noted that "where many films show grief merely as a crippling hindrance, Winter Boy sees it as an emotional state that constantly rises and recedes, disrupting the flow and morphing the meaning of everyday experience" and went on to praise Kircher, Binoche and Lacoste's performances. Describing the former's performance, Smith wrote that Kircher delivered a "remarkably restrained yet captivating debut performance" and that he "imbues Lucas with a precociousness and mischievousness that makes it challenging to easily discern exactly how he's handling his father's untimely death or what exactly drives his increasingly curious behavior." On the latter two, Smith opined that "Binoche and Lacoste are superb in their small roles, and through their respective characters' attempts to both guide and restrain Lucas."[10]
Award | Date of ceremony | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref |
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San Sebastián International Film Festival | 16–24 September 2022 | Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance | Paul Kircher | Won | [11] |
Lumières Awards | 16 January 2023 | Best Male Revelation | Paul Kircher | Nominated | [12] |
Best Screenplay | Christophe Honoré | Nominated | |||
César Awards | 24 February 2023 | Most Promising Actor | Paul Kircher | Nominated | [13] |
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