A Love to Hide

Untitled Document

A LOVE TO HIDE
Tuesday, October 17, 9:45pm
Harvard Exit Theatre
ASL interpreting before the film

Nazi-occupied Paris, 1942. By day, Jean’s family runs a thriving laundry. By night, he secretly trysts with Philippe, his underground-agent lover. When Jean’s Jewish childhood friend Sarah appears seeking shelter, the couple hides her from the Gestapo. For a brief time they live safely, but their world is shattered when Jean’s jealous black sheep of a brother sets off a spiral of heartbreaking events that ruptures the three friends’ precarious existence. César nominees Jérémie Renier (François Ozon’s CRIMINAL LOVERS) and Bruno Todeschini (Patrice Chéreau’s THOSE WHO LOVE ME CAN TAKE THE TRAIN) lead a cast marked by impeccable performances in a powerful tale of wartime horror and forbidden love. Arguably the most compelling portrait of gay love in World War II Europe since AIMEE & JAGUAR, the film has won best narrative feature awards at recent Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Miami gay and lesbian film festivals.

A LOVE TO HIDE; Christian Faure, director; 2005; France; 102 minutes; 35mm (in French with English subtitles)