Reel Affirmations: The Nation's LGBT Film Festival 2008

 
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Times Have Been Better
Régis Musset 2007
Categories: Feature Film
Run time: 90 min. | France | Language: French | Subtitled

In this delightful French comedy, Jeremy excels at everything. He's only 30 but has just been promoted to an executive position at the bank. In his parents' eyes, he's the golden child - successful, handsome and sure to provide the grandchildren his mother craves so much.

The praise heaped on Jeremy is a bit much for his younger brother, Robin, who has been the only one in the family privy to Jeremy's sexual predilections.

But when Jeremy unexpectedly stops by for Sunday brunch one day and announces that he's just moved in with, well, his boyfriend, things begin to percolate. Jeremy's parents always fancied themselves as progressive and liberal. After this little piece of news: not so much. Mom and Dad accuse one another of knowing their son's secret and never having shared that knowledge. They embark on what becomes a comical quest to find out what caused Jeremy's homosexuality. Jeremy's mom, Rosine, seeks the advice of her jaded - yet charming - gay co-worker.

Jeremy's dad, Guy, looks to his tennis buddies for answers, finds few, and promptly takes up smoking. At first delighted to no longer be the black sheep of the family, Robin experiences unexpected, new drama as both parents take out their frustrations on him, their only offspring still living at home and under their control. How can this lovely family ever come together again in peace?

Times Have Been Better stars Charlotte de Turckheim (who has worked with everyone from Gerard Depardieu to Merchant and Ivory) as the delightfully befuddled Rosine, and Bernard le Coq, the Ce'sar winning actor most recently seen in Cache by Michael Haneke.

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