Change Your Image
tjosullivan
Reviews
Hommes à louer (2008)
very moving
This movie is about drug addiction and hustling. It's a pity that people might think its just a sensational fast look at hustling.
The Québécois and the street "verlan" really challenged me at first. The guys are very articulate, its the audience that needs to adjust to the way they communicate. I would imagine it would be a challenge to sit through this film if you can't understand some French, even though there are subtitles.
In fact its the turn of phrase in their street language that delivers the full story of what their lives are like. There are dozens of different ways to think about what the guys are saying.
I can't think of another film that is so long and just talking heads. Its startling to look at these guys' faces for so long, listening to them talk.
Over all its a great documentary. And purely as cinema, there is something similar to Morrissey's Trash (the Warhol production), the fiction that puts the camera on heads and lets the people talk and talk and talk.