ACTS OF LOVE

By Isidore BETHEL, Francis LEPLAY

HUTONG PRODUCTIONS - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2021

When his older boyfriend loses interest in him, the filmmaker relocates to Chicago and uses dating apps to cast new lovers in an amorphous project that his mother hates.

    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Documentary, First film, LGBT
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 70 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Isidore BETHEL, Francis LEPLAY
    • Producer(s)
    • Jamie GONÇALVES (SIN SITIO CINE), Lucie REGO (HUTONG PRODUCTIONS), Pauline TRAN VAN LIEU (HUTONG PRODUCTIONS)
    • Synopsis
    • A romance from the past creeps into the present. Looking for a way forward, a filmmaker arranges meetings with strangers on dating apps and asks them to make a film with him. He spirals into a series of unconventional relationships with them, and what results is a fragmented story about love, disappointment, and desire. Throughout, he receives phone calls from his mother, who reluctantly offers her son criticism and devotion – other forms of love.