KAOS: I Am Jonas

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Two moments of Jonas's life intertwine, each reflecting the other: in 1995, when he was a secretive teenager, and 18 years later, as an attractive and impulsive thirty-something looking for balance in his life.

One of the most startling additions to the LGBT film cannon in recent years was last year's brutal, raw and devastating Sauvage, starring Félix Maritaud.

Maritaud - who also appeared in the much-lauded BPM (Beats Per Minute) - is the titular Jonas, in a film that's alternatively known as I Am Jonas (for Netflix), and even Boys (not to be confused with Mischa Kamp's 2014 Dutch feature).

His fragile, vulnerable beauty is used to potent effect in a film about the terrible legacy of adolescent trauma and grief; Maritaud has a face etched with pain, and yet is also strikingly beautiful. He might well be a living, breathing reincarnation of St. Sebastian.

Director Christophe Charrier has executed a beautifully shot film that delivers another twist in the coming-of-age narrative, with a uniformly excellent (and highly attractive) cast, and a well-paced narrative that straddles two timelines. A future classic - and another feather in the cap for Félix Maritaud.

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"A film is a petrified fountain of thought." Jean Cocteau, French filmmaker, 1889-1963

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