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Maurice, a reticent young homeless man somehow manages to get by in Brooklyn; he spends
his nights in parked cars until he finds himself at ‘Bizarre’, an underground club renowned for its
burlesque shows. Maurice is fascinated by the club’s playful revues celebrating self-determined
sexuality and creative otherness, and the two female club owners both adore him. He soon becomes
a part of their chosen family, and begins to bond with introverted Luka. But Maurice turns his back on
Luka’s growing affection. Running away from his true emotions he drifts aimlessly through the city.
He tries to find his feet at a boxing club, where he meets Charlie. Unable to withstand the pressure of
his repressed feelings, Maurice unleashes a mounting foment of emotions, pervaded by tenderness
and menace. Étienne Faure shot his film on location at ‘Bizarre’. Illuminating the promise of an
independent future for his aimless escapees in the resplendent creations of ‘Bizarre’s’ artistes, Faure
moulds his keenly sensitive observations of these lost, disturbed souls to form a mesmerising trance.
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Credits
- Production company
- eivissa productions
- Original title
- Bizarre