L'Homme Que J'Aime
(The Man I Love)

While there were ALOT of truely unbelievable aspects to the characters and situations, in the context of the film and its light hearted approach to the subjects, I willingly and conciously had to set aside my disbelief. The love interest, Lucas, is either bisexual, or a closeted and inexperienced gay man or even something inbetween and I liked that they never made a clear distinction about his loving a woman and the begining and loving a man at the end. It seemed so European and modern and something that could never happen in America. It almost made me shocked to think that in such a conservative, catholic society, the older parental figures would accpet his blossoming love affair far easier and faster than he seemed to. That's what I mean about suspending disbelief, the characters are so likable that I wanted to see them happy together and this IS a made-for-tv movie. The protagonist, Martin, is irrepressable and sort of like a happier, emotionally healthier version of Bridget Jones. He's facing his imminent death with all the grace he can muster and at times, that isn't very much. The location (Marseilles) was beautiful and so was the actor playing Lucas. I love green eyed guys and obviously the film makers do too because they continually featured him in speedos or languid poses and often in close-ups. The wit and humour peppered throughout saved the story from being too weighted by its morose subject of death. At times, this worked to its disadvantage though because there was so much joking around about Martin's illness that when he fainted by the pool, I laughed out loud thinking it was just another ploy for sympathy... it wasn't, and in the next scene where he's in hospital, I felt really bad for laughing. By the end of the film, I wasn't sure if he died or not because he never looked really sick, he just looked French in that cigarette smoking, pale olive skinned, been through the ringer sort of way. Even if the ending was a bit unresolved, this was a really cute film and DEFINATELY NOT something we'll see anytime soon on American TV, vive la France.

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