The Acrobat (2010)

Original title

L'acrobate

Directed by

Rodrigue Jean

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

2h 14m

Rated

18A

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two men meet in an empty apartment in a Montreal construction site during a snowstorm. They start a secret affair, meeting there regularly for sadomasochistic sex.

eroticintimatecoldrawpassionateanonymousritualisticlonely

What happens

The Acrobat (French: L'Acrobate) is a Canadian erotic art film, directed by Rodrigue Jean and released in 2019. The film centres on Christophe (Sébastien Ricard) and Micha (Yury Paulau), two men who meet in an unoccupied unit in a high-rise construction project in Montreal during a snowstorm and begin an anonymous and passionate love affair in which they regularly meet back at the same unit to engage in ritualized sadomasochistic sexual acts. The film, which borrows its initial narrative setup from the film Last Tango in Paris, is the third in Jean's trilogy of films exploring sexuality and emotional intimacy, following Lost Song and Love in the Time of Civil War. The film premiered at the 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival, was subsequently screened at the Festival du nouveau cinéma, and had its commercial release in February 2020. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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