L'Homme blesse av Robert Payne

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Drawn into the circuit of men cruising for sex in and around a train station, restless adolescent Henri begins a frenzied pursuit of a dangerously charismatic older man, with sometimes violent and ultimately tragic consequences. Premiering at Cannes in 1983, Patrice Ch¿au''s L''Homme bless¿The Wounded Man) was one of France''s first major cinematic releases to depict homosexual desire and queer sexual cultures in an unapologetic and complex way. It is a film that continues to resonate to this day.L''Homme bless¿enerated controversy with its dark tone and its treatment of an adolescent''s obsessive homoerotic desire, as well as Ch¿au''s denial that the film is about homosexuality. Robert Payne guides readers through the powerfully erotic underworld of L''Homme bless¿where the film sidesteps fixed identities and draws viewers into the ambiguous spaces of queer desire, and argues that its visual composition depicts queer ways of seeing and generates queer ways of feeling. A look into the