you have get to think along the line of last tango in paris for this one because the mood and emotion run along the same line and maintain the same height the difference be that in this exceptional and intense and torrid depiction of love among the ruin of a dostoyevskyian dispossess the setting be a gay subcultural milieu perhaps even one that be set to vanish in time and and not the equally arrest but heterosexual context of bertolucci own film . the last third of this film depict a passionate love never see in gay cinema . to talk of pornography or gay self effacement miss the point and intelligence of this work . this film and though on first impression appear to take u into the familiar and often depicted underworld of gay street life and then precedes to subvert the rule of this genre by exaggerate it to a super real degree . the result be a hyper charge emotional heighten an exceptional strategy that elevate the drama to one of big universal theme and giant gesture . this film snatch the high ground because of the brilliant performance by it actor and notably a young jean hugues anglade and the directing . a tour de force of cinema . outstanding in ambition and it unceasing plummet into the depth of human emotion . a a contribution to gay cinema and this film conquer this difficult ground and make it it own triumph .