A french family inherits a house at the Cote D'Azure and moves there for the summer vacations: mother Beatrix is a young free-thinker diva with Dutch upbringing, Marc - the father a conservative angry looking Frenchman, Charly a young boy in his puberty discovering his body (and taking long showers). The whole idylic family however gets under tension after Martin, a young gay friend of Charly, arrives. Is Charly gay too? Are they both together? Suddenly everything seems to come out...What I think the movie succeeds at is the mixture of the realistic portrayal of the different relationships between the characters and their way towards finding about each other and at the same time making you realise that this actually is only a movie. The two musical-like singing sequences are perfectly done and just as refreshing as the movie itself... :)
The film was directed by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau and presented at the Berlin Film Festival this year. Do not forget to check out the nice karaoke version of the main film song on it's official french website!
P.S. And btw: I love the plumber too! ;)
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