Queer criminality meets romantic love in this riveting and unconventional murder mystery. 

Set in Montreal, this adaptation of Rene-Daniel Dubois' taut, claustrophobic play opens up the action and heightens its original dramatic force. 

Relying less on the whodunit angle and more on "why-did-he-do-it," the film opens with an erotic, hyperkinetic sequence focusing on a steamy sex scene which ends with a brutal murder. 

Three days later, Yves, a sexy male prostitute, summons the police to a judge's chamber and admits to the apparently senseless crime. 

Unapologetically gay and not the killer type, Yves, the lover of the deceased Claude, soon becomes embroiled in a harrowing interrogation which lays bare his tortured soul to the tough but strangely sympathetic cop. 

A fine drama that works both as a suspense thriller and an absorbing tale of gay passions and desperate love.

(French with English subtitles)

-- gbwebbie
Uploaded on 08-Feb-2002