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Inner Jellyfishes (2015)

Inner Jellyfishes poster
Original title
Les méduses
Directed by
Marc-Antoine Lemire
Genre
drama
Country
Canada
Runtime
24 min
Rating
1.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young gay man looking for connection hooks up with another man but the encounter leaves him feeling even more isolated. He wants a deeper emotional bond but the other man is not interested.

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What happens

Inner Jellyfishes (French: Les Méduses) is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Marc-Antoine Lemire and released in 2015. The film stars Rudi Duperré as a young gay man struggling with feelings of isolation who hooks up with another man (Samuel Brassard) for sex, but finds that the encounter intensifies rather than assuaging his loneliness as he experiences a desire for a deeper emotional connection than the hookup is willing or able to offer. The film's screenings included the 2015 Image+Nation festival and the 2015 San Francisco International Festival of Short Films, where it won the Vanguard Award. It was screened at BFI Flare in 2016 as part of a program of films about chemsex, with the website The Conversation praising it as one of the only films in the program that did not moralize about the practice. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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