OUT 28 APRIL MUBI
A gay teenager loses his dad before is as graphic in its depictions of adolescent passion as it is when detailing a botched attempted suicide. This is clearly personal material for the writer/director, whose own father died when Honoré was of a similar age to his precocious protagonist (newcomer Paul Kircher, son of star Irène Jacob). As excellent as Juliette Binoche is as the boy’s grief-stricken mother, however, Honoré’s film ultimately feels more like therapy than a fully realised drama.
