The Confusion of Genders

(La confusion des genres)

Directed by Ilan Duran Cohen

France

SOUTH FLORIDA PREMIERE

Alain is pushing forty and doesn't know how to love.Ý In the opening of this sensual and witty French comedy-drama, he's seen lying nude in bed with one partner after another in quick succession.Ý Male, female, old and young, they all dissect his self-absorption and commitment-phobia with lacerating candor.Ý Then, for a brief moment, Alain thinks he's found the key to happiness: get married and have kids with his law partner and best friend Laurence (a woman; played with understated neurosis by Nathalie Gregory).Ý Though she's long been obsessed with Alain, Laurence is understandably wary.Ý Moments after he proposes, Alain throws himself into a steamy affair with an unbalanced and adoring much-younger man (unbearably sexy Vincent Martinez).Ý Alain's bisexual bafflement only escalates when he becomes the unwitting messenger of love notes from an imprisoned client, a hot, sex-starved psychopathic killer, to his disinterested hairstylist girlfriend.Ý Naturally, Alain's relationship with both gets unprofessional, fast.Ý This is a sophisticated, witty exploration of the fear of aging and the struggle to commit.Ý In Pascal Greggory's raw and riveting performance as Alain, the tug of war of sexual confusion blends fluidly with wide-eyed innocent longing.Ý He's surrounded by a dynamic cast that anchors the typically French antics in a delightfully warm glow, and makes palpable the erotic and emotional charge that all the characters share with Alain.Ý Never has middle-aged drifting been so hot.Ý In French with English subtitles. A 2001 Sundance Film Festival selection.Ý Director Ilan Duran Cohen will attend the screening and discuss his film with the audience.

Preceded by Rick and Steve; The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World, Episode 3, Dir. Q. Allan Brocka, United States, U.S. PREMIEREÝÝ Lego lesbian wannabe-parents babysit and Rick and Steve teach the kid its first word in the continuing adventures of our "homo South Park" animated buddies.

9:00 PM Screening only $10

Film plus post-screening Samba Nights party at the Albion Hotel $20