From France comes a sweeping and unforgettable wartime epic, the most compelling portrait of gay life and gay love in Nazi-occupied Europe ever to fill the screen. In Paris, Jean and Phillipe (played by the ravishing Jérémie Renier and Bruno Todeschini) are madly, achingly in love. When a young Jewish refugee named Sara (Louise Monot) shows up on their doorstep, they don’t hesitate to take her in, offer protection, and help her establish a false Gentile identity. Despite the ever-present Gestapo threat, they’re able to live in a delicate safety, all three taking long countryside bike rides by day, the two men carousing at an underground gay bar by night. But that safety is an illusion, and when Jacques’ black-sheep brother Jean is released from prison, it’s shattered completely. The spiral of misfortune that ensues is heartbreaking, almost impossible to bear, and director Christian Faure does not romanticize or flinch from the human toll of wartime atrocity. The film is a visual masterpiece, rich with period cityscapes and detailing. And the cast is uniformly flawless, engaging our hearts in a complex emotional story that – despite the film’s swift leaps in time and space – remains tightly focused and utterly gripping. A love to Hide has taken the festival circuit by storm, amassing awards and enthralling gay and straight filmgoers alike. For the first time, Miami audiences can now see it for themselves. In French with English subtitles

Christian Faure is a native of south-west France, and a graduate of Bordeaux University, School of Dentistry. He has worked as assistant director with Leos Carax, Robert Altman, Rolf de Heer. He made his first film for television in 1991, and has directed about twenty more since then, including Just a question of love (2000), now available on DVD in USA. He resides in Paris, France.

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