Frameline Film Fest: A Love to Hide June 25, 2006

A Love to Hide
Un amour à taire

An elegant, nuanced drama with horrific subject matter, A Love to Hide is set in Paris in 1942. Jean and Philippe, two young gay lovers in occupied France, risk their lives to hide a childhood Jewish friend, Sarah, whose family has been killed by the Gestapo. They struggle to survive as a makeshift family in a pitiless society. When Jean’s black-sheep brother —a Nazi collaborator—arrives, their fragile bond is threatened. The spectre of tragedy slowly closes in when Jean is exposed as a member of the “third sex” and falsely accused of having an affair with a Nazi.

With remarkable performances by Jérémie Renier (Criminal Lovers) and Bruno Todeschini (Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train), the film features meticulous attention to period detail and crisp, constantly gliding cinematography. A Love to Hide provides a powerful complement to the documentary Paragraph 175 (Frameline 2000), which also dealt with gay persecution during the Nazi era. Winner of both the Best Fiction Feature Award and the Audience Favorite Feature Film Award at the 2006 Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.

—J. SHEPARD

A LOVE TO HIDE dir Christian Faure 2005 France 103 min 35mm in French with English subtitles

Co-presented by LGBT Alliance, Jewish Community Federation

This program is sponsored by Steamworks Management.

Official Website: http://www.frameline.org/festival/30th/filmsevents.html