I Am Jonas

2018

DramaRomanceTV Movie

When Jonas was 14 he met the charismatic but mysterious Nathan. In addition to guiding him in grappling with his sexuality, Jonas soon confronts something dark and even dangerous about his new friend. Now an attractive, sexually assured adult, memories from this time still haunt Jonas.

Rating

6.769
255 votes

Popularity

1.0065

Origin & Countries

FR | fr | France

Production

ARTE,En Compagnie des Lamas

Runtime

82 min.

Status

Released

Release: 11/23/2018

Credits

I Am Jonas

Christophe CharrierDirector

I Am Jonas

Félix MaritaudJonas (adult)

I Am Jonas

Nicolas BauwensJonas (teenager)

I Am Jonas

Tommy Lee BaïkNathan

I Am Jonas

Aure AtikaNathan's Mother

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Reviews

CinemaSerf

3/27/2022

7 / 10

This is quite a well put together little drama recounting the life of "Jonas" through the twin threads of his late childhood and of a current day thirty-something. Félix Maritaud plays the elder incarnation in a typically gritty and plausible way (though he does look like he could do with a good meal!) with Nicolas Bauwens as his younger, largely conformist, self. My problem is that the narrative that gets us from person A to person B - via a new schoolfriend "Nathan" doesn't quite work. There is an incident, which we do discover at the end, but it leaves me with a feeling of incompleteness. Perhaps that's Christophe Charrier's plan - that there are no "happy endings", but I am struggling to fathom just how Jonas got onto this path of self destruction and his life, so out of hand in the first place. As with loads of French gay cinema, it is filmed at night - via street light - and is all the more evocative for that.

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