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Being at Home With Claude

Roy Dupuis (Actor), Jacques Godin (Actor), Jean Beaudin (Director) | Rated: Unrated | Format: VHS Tape
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A cynical police detective (Jacques Godin) interrogates a male prostitute (Roy Dupuis) to discover why he murdered his respected male lover. Written and directed Jean Beaudin, and based on the stage play by Rene Daniel Dubois, this French-language film is hurt by glossy direction. By opening the story from a one-room stage and throwing in flashbacks to the relationship between the prostitute and his lover, the film undermines the tension created by the claustrophobia of an interrogation. It does feature intense performances by Godin and Dupuis though, and explores similar themes--love and sex against a background of murder--as Love and Human Remains, another stage-to-screen adaptation. --D.K. Latta

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Adaptation efficace de la pièce de René-Daniel Dubois, Being at Home With Claude est un film qui n'a pas pris une ride. Pourquoi ? Parce qu'un texte aussi fort, une réalisation aussi fidèle et des acteurs aussi justes sont intemporels.

Par une étouffante nuit d'été, un jeune prostitué montréalais (Roy Dupuis) se livre à un policier (Jacques Godin), sans vouloir rien dévoiler de lui-même et des motifs qui l'ont poussé à trancher la gorge de son amant (Jean-François Pichette) en plein orgasme. L'interrogatoire durera jusqu'à l'aube, huis clos palpitant, où l'on ne saura jamais vraiment qui est le chat et qui est la souris.

Aussi à l'aise au cinéma (J.A. Martin, photographe, Souvenirs intimes) qu'à la télévision (Le Matou, Les Filles de Caleb), Jean Beaudin est de ces cinéastes qui respectent énormément ce (et ceux) qu'il filme. Entièrement au service des dialogues et des comédiens, sa mise en scène s'efface derrière la puissance des mots et se concentre sur le duo-duel Dupuis-Godin. Du premier quart d'heure fulgurant au dernier moment à couper le souffle, Being at Home With Claude est un film sur l'amour fou et un vrai coup au cœur. --Éric Fourlanty

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Being At Home With Claude, Oct 14 2002
This review is from: Being at Home With Claude (VHS Tape)
Fans of "La Femme Nikita" finally get to see Roy Dupuis emote in this chamber drama. Dupuis plays Yves, a tortured prostitute, who has murdered his lover. The film plays out as a police interrogation, the detective slowing drawing out the harrowing details from Yves.

If you are looking for a police drama with lots of action, this is not the movie for you. If you appreciate intricate character studies, then "Being At Home With Claude" delivers.

Dupuis owns this movie through and through. The film is Yves's confession and largely takes place in one room with just the police detective. In such a restricted setting, Dupuis holds our attention with his ability to convey a variety of different emotions: guilt, anger, love, frustration. His ability to make us care about his character, to feel some sort of empathy, is what makes this excellent film so captivating.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Yummy Roy at his best!, Jun 6 2002
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Dawn R. Shuler (Toledo,Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Being at Home With Claude (VHS Tape)
I watched this video today. I was alittle annoyed by the english subtitles but couldn't keep my eyes off of the beautiful speciman of a man! Roy is delicious!He looked so good! I felt it really showed what a great actor he could be! If you like Roy you will put up with the subtitles!It's worth reading them!
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars This is an emotional film!, Mar 19 2001
By kim "kaj6" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Being at Home With Claude (VHS Tape)
It is dark and sordid but really could not be portrayed fittingly in any other way. The acting is absolutely phenomenal. Roy Dupuis not only takes the show but forcefully steals it so that you begin to wonder if he isn't the only actor in the movie. The cinematography is also well done with flashbacks and subtle switching between color and black & white. It was a little difficult to follow at first because it is English sub-titled and the actors are speaking extremely fast. The passion however, is unmistakable and I truly felt that this was an actual event happening before my eyes as opposed to a film script. I was pulled into the emotional contradiction and inner wrestling that the character Yves was feeling and could almost taste the pain. If this is Roy Dupuis' first movie debut, we are in for a wild, wild ride! This actor obviously loves his art.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars a mind-blowing trip, Aug 25 2001
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This review is from: Being at Home With Claude (VHS Tape)
Intense, with horror and beauty so intertwined it's hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. Not for the faint of heart or for those who are turned off by gays. But it is a wonderful story, well-acted (Dupuis turns in a magnificent performance) and filled with suspense that is relieved only at the end -- it keeps your attention riveted. It certainly made me wish my French were good enough to follow the dialogue, which is swift and complex. The subtitles follow reasonably well, so you do get the gist of the experience. Well worth the price, as it is the sort of movie one watches more than once, finding new elements of meaning each time it is viewed.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a must see film, Sep 10 1999
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This review is from: Being at Home With Claude (VHS Tape)
Roy Dupuis gives a heart felt proformance as Yves a smart and sexy hustler who wasn't looking for what he found when he met Claude. This is a film about what we are all searching for and what most of us never really find, because when we have it most of the time we don't know what to do with it. Yves finds it, and it terrified him, made him feel lost and confused. And he took that feeling of desperation out on the only person who could really understand. Words can't discribe this film in the way it should be discribed, so I suggest you buy this film, sit back, be perpared to have your heart broken and your mind expanded. Once you see it I promise you will never be the same.
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