Winter Boy
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2023
March 2 - 12, 2023
In the wake of his father’s sudden death, adolescent Lucas (Paul Kircher) is plunged into deep grief, leading his mother, Isabelle (Juliette Binoche), to send him to live temporarily with his brother, Quentin (Vincent Lacoste), in Paris. Inspired by the experience of losing his own father at the age of 15, writer-director Christophe Honoré renders his past immediate and universal in this raw, tender, and gorgeous work.
Q&A with Christophe Honoré on March 11. Join Honoré for a free talk on March 10 at 4pm.
“My life has become a wild animal that I can’t approach without getting bitten,” explains young Lucas (Paul Kircher) at the beginning of the latest from Rendez-Vous alumnus Christophe Honoré (last year’s Guermantes, Love Songs). In the wake of his father’s sudden death, adolescent Lucas is plunged into deep grief, leading his mother, Isabelle (Juliette Binoche), to send him to live temporarily with his brother, Quentin (Vincent Lacoste), in Paris. Manic in his mourning, Lucas tumultuously explores his queer sexuality as his brother and mother deal with their own emotional turmoil. Inspired by Honoré’s experience of losing his own father at the age of 15, Winter Boy stands as one of the director’s most autobiographical films yet, a story that he’s updated and set in the present day—rendering his past both immediate and universal in this raw, tender, and gorgeous work.
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