After a notable entry into literature with They will kill your sonstwo years ago, a novel whose hero, a 15-year-old queer boy, survives several attempts to extinguish it, Perilhou is interested in Björn Andrésen, the 15-year-old Swede to whom Luchino Visconti entrusted in 1970 Tadzio’s role in his adaptation of Death in Venice by Thomas Mann. Fruit of the desiring gaze of a snake director, the film transforms the “blond angel” into a sexual symbol. “Her swimsuit highlighted the small muscles of her arms, her thighs, her buttocks at my waist. I felt on my neck the mixed breaths of cinema and ecstasy. » By embroidering around this true story, and a blatant topicality, by adopting a sophisticated language, often even erudite, by multiplying the voices, by crossing the registers, by telescoping the eras, by describing without taking sides the fate of some and others, the author makes us think about the way in which the seventh art can easily become a formidable machine for crushing children.
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