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When Sex Becomes A Grind(r): '4 Days In France'

A gay man saunters through the French countryside, pursued by his lover, in this loose meditation on the perks and pitfalls of hooking up.
<em>Bon App-etit</em>: Pierre (Pascal Cervo) is guided by Grindr in <em>4 Days In France. </em>

In , a mesmerizing road movie by first-time director Jerome Reybaud, a young gay Parisian named Pierre (Pascal Cervo) packs his bags at dawn and leaves his sleeping lover, Paul (Arthur Igual). Departing the capital for a radically unstructured odyssey around a rural France enchantingly free of glam movie-Frenchiness, Pierre is guided by his Grindr app, with Paul in

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