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RUNTIME
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Tight 5-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
MoodPlayr · trivia#01
Cast
Matteo Simoni
Boy
Geert Hunaerts
Man
Robert Roanne
Old Man
Nicolas Gilson
The cute boy
Nicola Testa
The cute boy's boyfriend
Alain Van Goethem
Smoke man
Benjamin Ramon
Drink boy
Koen Onghena
Money boy
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Alexis Van Stratum
- Languages
- No Language
- Countries
- Belgium
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ERA
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Released 22 years ago.
MoodPlayr · trivia#02
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RUNTIME
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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
MoodPlayr · trivia#03
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DIRECTOR
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Directed by Alexis Van Stratum, shot by Frank van den Eeden. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
MoodPlayr · trivia#04
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CAST
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Matteo Simoni and Geert Hunaerts and Robert Roanne carry the top of the cast.
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WILD
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IMDB entry: tt0401412 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
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WILD
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Only 4 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
MoodPlayr · trivia#07
Cinephile deep dive
The take
Alexis Van Stratum directs. Frank van den Eeden behind the camera. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Belgium. Dialogue in No Language.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Tight 5-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
- 2Released 22 years ago.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4Directed by Alexis Van Stratum, shot by Frank van den Eeden. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
- 5Matteo Simoni and Geert Hunaerts and Robert Roanne carry the top of the cast.
- 6IMDB entry: tt0401412 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 7Only 4 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
- 8Classified under 8 themes, including "dancing", "lgbt", "flirting", "discotheque".
The technical file
- Cinematography
- Frank van den Eeden
- Runtime
- 5 min · 0h 5m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- XX
- IMDB rating
- 5.5/10 · 72 votes
Also by
Alexis Van Stratum
Community reviews
What people are saying
- CinemaSerf★ 5/10
This starts out with a scene that reminded me of the original "Queer as Folk" (1999) drama with a single young man amidst a nightclub scene in which he looks lost, watching the dancers and the couples. A stranger comes and gives him a cigarette and then, as the title suggests, we fast-forward to the same man only moustachioed and older - looking for and rejected by a younger man, then again we advance to when he is quite elderly, has lost his looks and is reduced to funding a younger man - before we see him, finally, back on the same dance floor, quite literally. I'm not at all sure what we are supposed to take from this? The shallowness or fickleness of gay existence? The constant search for youth? Carpe Diem? There's no dialogue so I suppose each to his own but I was left unbothered one way or the other.
Production companies
Who made it
- LA
Laïka Films
CH
Key crew
- ProducerBavo Defurne
- ProducerYves Verbraeken
Themes & keywords
What it's about, really
- dancing
- lgbt
- flirting
- discotheque
- ageing
- gay theme
- dancing men
- short film
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical2004-07-13· Los Angeles Outfest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Also known as
International titles
- D'un traitFR
