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Danny in the Sky
 
 

Danny in the Sky

Denis Langlois    DVD
2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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Aussi léger soit-il, le milieu de la mode est un sujet prisé des cinéastes. D’abord parce qu’il leur permet d’aborder un univers où règnent beauté et glamour ; ensuite, parce qu’il se prête à une réflexion sur la représentation et l’apparence, thèmes très importants au cinéma. C’est cette mission que s’était fixé le réalisateur québécois Denis Langlois pour Danny in the Sky, son troisième long métrage.

Danny, 19 ans, vit à Montréal et rêve de gloire et de paillettes. Plutôt beau garçon, il se décide donc à abandonner ses études pour tenter sa chance comme mannequin. Le destin lui tracera toutefois une route tout autre, le ballottant entre mauvaises rencontres et jobs sordides.

Empruntant la voie du flash-back, Danny In The Sky est une descente dans un enfer très particulier qui sent le sexe et le soufre. Malgré de bonnes idées de réalisation, notamment en matière de cadrage, le niveau plutôt médiocre des comédiens empêche l’ensemble de prendre du relief et d’atteindre une intensité intéressante. On préférera revoir Prêt-à-porter, de Robert Altman, ou même Stardom, de Denys Arcand, pour leur approche moins superficielle. --Helen Faradji


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2.0 out of 5 stars Beauty fades; dumb is forever, Jun 14 2004
By Jay Dickson (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
Thierry Pepin is a truly beautiful young man, with a great body and beautiful curly hair. This movie in which he stars is also beautifully shot and composed. Beauty, however, only takes you so far, and then you're faced with the utter stupidity of the screenplay of DANNY IN THE SKY. Danny is a young beauty, kept at arm's distance from his hunky repressed gay father and forever mourning his mother, a fabulous model and suicide. He suffers exquisitely, betrayed by his father, his girlfriend, and his handsome cousin, whose chances at winning a modelling competition away from Danny are scotched when Danny drugs his drink and puts him into a coma. Running away in horror at his own actions (this is the kind of movie where there are endless shots of the hero running away from something), Danny coveniently (and literally) bumps into the stripper who is a former boyfriend of another love interest, and then... oh, who cares. You get to see lot of shots of Pepin shirtless (which is wonderful) and also even more stupidly unlikely coincidences before the movie is mercifully over almost before it began.
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1.0 out of 5 stars simply beefcake, April 8 2004
By Daryn Malof "darmal5" (Cincinnati) - See all my reviews
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This one of those films where you realised you have simply wasted two hours ogling a guy's body without any sort of plot.....perhaps that is too harsh...there is a plot, yet it could have been far better if the writer had stopped ogling the star's body as well!
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2.0 out of 5 stars Not more than barely passable, Mar 12 2004
By Bill (Seattle, Washington United States) - See all my reviews
I saw this movie only a couple of days ago, and already I hardly remember it. It's just not very good. The production values are quite fine, and so are some of the performances. But the main character is somewhat aggravating, and the plot goes nowhere. I was glad to see it end.

It's hard to see what point this movie is trying to make. In a way, I guess it's attempting to update and incorporate some elements of the 1956 movie "Tea and Sympathy," where a straight man is mistaken for gay. But now, nearly half a century later, it's time to move on, isn't it?

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1.0 out of 5 stars Why?
I thought this movie was very disjointed. It didn't do a very good job of connecting the scenes. The cinematography was excellent. Read more
Published on Mar 1 2004

4.0 out of 5 stars great film
Langlois has a feel for the social content of his stories. There is no Quebec director that I know of who treats the vicissitudes of modern, mainstream gay life with Langlois's... Read more
Published on Dec 30 2003 by Plano Man

3.0 out of 5 stars Simplistic story, good but could have been better
In the 2001 French-Canadian film "Danny In The Sky," the title character (played by the adorable Thierry Pépin) is the 19 year old drop-out son of a fashion model mom who... Read more
Published on Dec 8 2003 by Bob Lind

4.0 out of 5 stars Danny In The Sky is a dark movie that will provoke thought
This is a powerfull dramatic tale of a sexy young aspiring male model who says he is straight, but yet finds every aspect of his life making him seem like he is in to the gay... Read more
Published on Sep 16 2003 by Porfie Medina

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