The Best Way to Walk
Summer 1960: Marc and Philippe work as counselors at a camp in Auvergne. Marc discovers Philippe's secret homosexual tendencies and uses this to bully him. The summer of 1960 was rainy. In a summer ca…
The Best Way to Walk
Summer 1960: Marc and Philippe work as counselors at a camp in Auvergne. Marc discovers Philippe's secret homosexual tendencies and uses this to bully him. The summer of 1960 was rainy. In a summer camp in the Puy-de-Dôme, the counselors, depending on their personalities, kept the children busy. Marc's group played sports in the rain, while Philippe's group did theater indoors in the playroom. One evening, Marc caught Philippe in his room, made up and dressed in a red dress. Marc was unsettled, Philippe embarrassed. From this moment arose between the two young men a troubled, homosexual-type bond, which repression would turn into an oppressor-oppressed relationship. Unwilling to take the sexual step, Marc inflicted on Philippe a series of physical as well as psychological abuses. To escape this situation, Philippe would assert himself as a man. His first sexual attempt with Chantal, his fiancée, was a failure, as were his sporting ambitions. It was only at a costume ball held at the end of camp that Philippe decided to embrace who he was. He appeared as a Spanish dancer. In a symbolic coincidence, Marc arrived dressed as a toreador, while Chantal came as a mustached nobleman. Then Philippe, in a sequence of heightened intensity, regained the upper hand and went so far as to wound Marc physically. A few years later, Marc, now a real estate agent, tries to sell an apartment to Philippe, who lives with Chantal. They are not married; Marc is, and carries a briefcase. 'After you,' he says to Philippe as he leaves the apartment. —Yves Fauch A group of young people and a vacation camp in the Auvergne form the backdrop for an encounter that turns into a duel. Marc and Philippe work here as counselors. Marc gives the impression of a macho man with no problems, whereas Philippe is a thinker, quiet and mysterious. The clash of two such different personalities inevitably leads to tensions. In the deliberately relaxed, exuberant atmosphere of the vacation camp, the two will relentlessly spy on, fear and pursue each other. When the dominant Marc accidentally discovers Philippe's unacknowledged homosexuality, he finally sees his chance to humiliate the other. After weeks of suffering, Philippe decides to free himself from his dependency by making his homosexual tendencies public. This turns his supposed weakness into a strength. He dresses up as a woman for the vacation colony's closing party. The scandal puts an end to the party. —Arte
The Best Way to Walk
Drama,Romance
Film Details
Summer 1960: Marc and Philippe work as counselors at a camp in Auvergne. Marc discovers Philippe's secret homosexual tendencies and uses this to bully him. The summer of 1960 was rainy.
In a summer camp in the Puy-de-Dôme, the counselors, depending on their personalities, kept the children busy. Marc's group played sports in the rain, while Philippe's group did theater indoors in the playroom. One evening, Marc caught Philippe in his room, made up and dressed in a red dress.
Marc was unsettled, Philippe embarrassed. From this moment arose between the two young men a troubled, homosexual-type bond, which repression would turn into an oppressor-oppressed relationship. Unwilling to take the sexual step, Marc inflicted on Philippe a series of physical as well as psychological abuses.
To escape this situation, Philippe would assert himself as a man. His first sexual attempt with Chantal, his fiancée, was a failure, as were his sporting ambitions. It was only at a costume ball held at the end of camp that Philippe decided to embrace who he was.
He appeared as a Spanish dancer. In a symbolic coincidence, Marc arrived dressed as a toreador, while Chantal came as a mustached nobleman. Then Philippe, in a sequence of heightened intensity, regained the upper hand and went so far as to wound Marc physically.
A few years later, Marc, now a real estate agent, tries to sell an apartment to Philippe, who lives with Chantal. They are not married; Marc is, and carries a briefcase. 'After you,' he says to Philippe as he leaves the apartment.
—Yves Fauch A group of young people and a vacation camp in the Auvergne form the backdrop for an encounter that turns into a duel. Marc and Philippe work here as counselors. Marc gives the impression of a macho man with no problems, whereas Philippe is a thinker, quiet and mysterious.
The clash of two such different personalities inevitably leads to tensions. In the deliberately relaxed, exuberant atmosphere of the vacation camp, the two will relentlessly spy on, fear and pursue each other. When the dominant Marc accidentally discovers Philippe's unacknowledged homosexuality, he finally sees his chance to humiliate the other.
After weeks of suffering, Philippe decides to free himself from his dependency by making his homosexual tendencies public. This turns his supposed weakness into a strength. He dresses up as a woman for the vacation colony's closing party.
The scandal puts an end to the party. —Arte.