Close (2022 film)

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Close
Theatrical release poster
Directed byLukas Dhont
Screenplay by
  • Lukas Dhont
  • Angelo Tijssens
Produced by
  • Dirk Impens
  • Michiel Dhont
Starring
CinematographyFrank van den Eeden
Edited byAlain Dessauvage
Music byValentin Hadjadj
Production
companies
  • Menuet
  • Diaphana Films
  • Topkapi Films
  • Versus Production
Distributed by
  • Lumière (Benelux)
  • Diaphana Distribution (France)
Release dates
  • 26 May 2022 (2022-05-26) (Cannes)
  • 1 November 2022 (2022-11-01) (France)
  • 2 November 2022 (2022-11-02) (Belgium)
  • 3 November 2022 (2022-11-03) (Netherlands)
Running time
104 minutes[1]
Countries
Languages
Box office$5.2 million[4]

Close (/kloʊs/) is a 2022 coming-of-age drama film directed by Lukas Dhont, and written by Dhont and Angelo Tijssens, reteaming after their first feature film Girl (2018). The film stars Eden Dambrine, Gustav De Waele, Émilie Dequenne and Léa Drucker. It follows two teenage boys whose close friendship is thrown into disarray when their schoolmates notice their intimacy, causing a rift between them.

Close premiered at the Cannes Film Festival[5] on 26 May 2022 to critical acclaim and won the Grand Prix; specialized critics praised the performances. The film is a co-production between Belgium, France and the Netherlands. It was released by Diaphana Distribution in France on 1 November 2022 and by Lumière in Benelux on 2 November. On 24 January 2023, the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.[6] It also won the André Cavens Award for Best Film by the Belgian Film Critics Association.[7] At the 12th Magritte Awards, Close received ten nominations, including Best Screenplay for Dhont, becoming the most nominated film of the ceremony and ultimately winning seven awards.[8]

Plot

In rural Belgium, two 13-year-old boys, Léo and Rémi, are best friends who exhibit a deeply intimate affection for one another. They have a habit of sleeping in the same bed in Rémi's bedroom. Rémi's parents, Sophie and Peter, accept this without judgment and love Léo like a second child. Léo's family helps run agricultural work at a flower farm, where he and Rémi like to play together.

At school, a trio of female classmates openly ask if the two are a couple. Léo vehemently denies it, while Rémi does not comment. Léo becomes uneasy with this external perception, exacerbated by homophobic slurs directed towards him by other boys. Fearing being ostracized, he begins new friendships and takes up ice hockey, from which he deliberately excludes Rémi. One night, while sleeping over at Rémi's, Léo decides to sleep on a separate mattress. Upon waking up, he finds Rémi sleeping on the same mattress as him. Léo turns aggressive, leaving Rémi hurt and confused. Léo becomes progressively distant from Rémi, despite Rémi's attempts at interaction. He stops sleeping over, starts riding his bicycle with students other than Rémi, continues participating in ice hockey, and spends more time working with his family at the farm. Rémi finally confronts him, to which he acts defensively. Distraught and angry, Rémi attacks Léo and the two fight.

One day, after a school trip from which Rémi is absent, the class is informed that Rémi has killed himself, which Léo believes his withdrawal caused. However, he closes off his emotions from everyone else, unable to talk to anyone about it during the class therapy sessions offered by the school. The fact that his classmates describe Rémi in obituaries as a happy and friendly boy triggers a defiant opposition in Léo. Léo unsuccessfully tries to suppress his inner pain and cover it up by resuming ice hockey and gardening work with his family. Although none of his new friendships comes close to the deep connection he had with Rémi, Léo is able to confide in his older brother Charlie for comfort.

Following Rémi's funeral, Léo knows he has to talk to Sophie, wanting to maintain his connection with her, but is anxious to confess. When Sophie and Peter have dinner with Léo's family, Peter breaks down when Charlie describes his future plans, as Sophie and Peter mourn the loss of Rémi's future. When summer vacation begins, Léo visits Sophie at her workplace without warning. As she drives him home, he finally confesses to her that he believes Rémi's suicide is his fault for pushing him away. After an initial moment of tension, she tenderly hugs and comforts him as they cry together. Sometime later, she and Peter have moved away, leaving the house empty. Léo walks across the field which he and Rémi used to run through, remembering their connection and allowing himself to finally grieve for Rémi.

Cast

Production

"When I read these testimonies of these 150 boys that aren't necessarily queer, I realized that making it only about a queer experience would limit it to that. [...] While it is not only about a queer experience, it's about the young male experience, because young men are not given that space to express themselves in that way. It gives you a place as an audience to interpret that experience as you want. But it's not about their sexuality, it's about how their intimacy and their sensuality are looked upon and how we are conditioned to look at it. How we want to compartmentalize everyone into boxes and labels and how we want to put a stamp on that love, and not let that love just exist in its true free form."

—Los Angeles Times' Lukas Dhont explained the meaning of Deep Secrets for the writing process of the film.[9]

On 19 December 2018, it was announced that Lukas Dhont was developing a follow-up feature film to his 2018 Cannes Film Festival award-winning directorial debut Girl. Co-writer Angelo Tijssens and producer Dirk Impens were attached to re-team with Dhont for the then-untitled film, with Dhont stating that "It's going to be different but also in the style of Girl", and that "At the centre of it is a queer character."[10] In writing the film, Dhont was inspired by psychologist Niobe Way's book, Deep Secrets: Boys' Friendships and the Crisis of Connection, which documents her study of intimacy among teenage boys.[9] Dhont named the film after a "close friendship," a recurring term in the book.[11]

There were no further developments until 23 July 2020, when it was announced that Dhont had set up an open casting call for the two male lead roles, set to be played by amateur actors, with casting scheduled to take place at the end of August. In addition, filming was scheduled to start the following summer.[12] The casting call was open to speakers of both French and Dutch, and Dhont decided to film it in French after casting.[13] On 20 October 2020, it was announced that the film would be titled Close and that international sales agent The Match Factory had joined the project. Dhont's brother Michael Dhont was also attached to production.[14] On 29 June 2021, the film featured on Eurimages' annual list of co-production financing, with the fund supporting the film with €300,000.[15]

Principal photography began on 9 July 2021. Alongside the start of production, it was also announced that Émilie Dequenne and Léa Drucker were cast in main roles. Speaking about the film, Dhont said: "Three years after the overwhelming trip of Girl, it's incredibly good to be back on the set, with this hugely talented cast and crew, especially as this story is close to my heart."[16]

Release

Close had its world premiere in competition for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival on 26 May 2022,[17] where it earned a 10-minute standing ovation[18][19] and was later awarded the Grand Prix.[20] It also played in the Official Competition at the 69th Sydney Film Festival, where it won the Sydney Film Prize.[21]

The film was released by Diaphana Distribution in France on 1 November 2022 and by Lumière in Benelux on 2 November. It was released by A24 in the United States on 27 January 2023, following a limited one-week theatrical run in New York City and Los Angeles on 2 December 2022.[22][23]

At Cannes, streaming service Mubi acquired distribution rights for the United Kingdom, Ireland, Latin America, Turkey and India.[24]

Reception

Critical response

On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, Close holds an approval rating of 91% based on 151 reviews from critics, with an average rating of 8.4/10. The website's consensus reads, "So moving for a majority of its runtime that not even a manipulative ending can ruin the experience, Close is a tender and powerfully acted look at childhood innocence lost."[25] On Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, the film holds a score of 81 out of 100 based on 34 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[26] The film impressed critics for Dhont's script and direction, whose cinematic technique, as well as narrative structure, was praised for its ability to deal with the theme of adolescence and coming out.[27][28] Critics also praised the performances of the actors in the cast.[29]

The critic Peter Bradshaw, reviewing the film for The Guardian, gave it a score of 4/5, writing that the story told is "disturbing" in that however "wised-up teenagers probably are now about the language of relationships and LGBT issues; [...] the end of a friendship is devastating." He also finds in the relationship of the two protagonists the ability to be "outraged at what amounts to a disloyal capitulation to homophobia" since "none of the adult life experience to explain it away" exists. The journalist is also pleasantly impressed with the acting, calling De Waele and Dambrine "excellent" and Dequenne and Drucker "valuable appearances."[30]

Leslie Felperin of The Hollywood Reporter calls the film a "heart-crushing but emotionally rich story in which "Dhont and his team know just how to turn up the emotional dials with stunning magic-hour lensing", finding, however, that the narrative is "just on the brink of overkill" on the externalization of feelings, although the director "keeps the brakes on just enough" to appease them.[31] Robbie Collin, reviewing the film for The Daily Telegraph, gives it a score of 5/5, denoting the director's work as "flawless" as the scenes "are handled with a sure but feather-light touch", concluding that "Close is a great film about friendship, but perhaps an even greater one about being alone."[32]

For the Italian press, Roberto Nepoti of la Repubblica divides the film's narrative into two moments, the first related to childhood in an "idyllic" atmosphere, while the second, related to adolescence, "veers to the dramatic by showing the evolution" of the protagonists, in which he denotes "the delicacy in dealing with the sensitive subject of sexuality when it is still immature and undefined." The journalist appreciates the "well-mastered" screenplay, appreciating the director's ability to do "symbolic work on the colors" surrounding the characters, although in the second half of the film Dhont "allows himself to be possessed by the temptation of the pathetic by overly soliciting the viewer's emotion."[33]

In a poll by IndieWire of 75 critics at Cannes, Close was named the best film of the festival.[34] Dhont shared the Grand Prix with Claire Denis' Stars at Noon.[20] The film also won the Sydney Film Prize in June 2022 at the 69th Sydney Film Festival,[35] with jury president David Wenham deeming the film "a standout" and calling it "a mature film about innocence" that "displayed a mastery of restraint, subtle handling of story, astute observations and delicate attention to finer details."[36]

On 16 September 2022, the film was announced as Belgium's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards,[37] and made the December shortlist,[38] before being nominated for the Academy Award on 24 January 2023.[6]

Accolades

Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
Cannes Film Festival 28 May 2022 Palme d'Or Lukas Dhont Nominated [39]
Grand Prix Won
Queer Palm Nominated [40]
Sydney Film Festival 19 June 2022 Sydney Film Prize Close Won [35]
Norwegian International Film Festival 26 August 2022 Norwegian Film Critics' Award Won [41]
Miskolc International Film Festival 17 September 2022 Emeric Pressburger Prize Nominated [42]
CICAE Award Won [43]
Hamptons International Film Festival 15 October 2022 Narrative Feature Won [44]
Mill Valley Film Festival 18 October 2022 Audience Favorite - World Cinema (Non-English Language) Won [45]
Chicago International Film Festival 21 October 2022 Gold Hugo Nominated [46]
Silver Hugo Jury Award Won
Gold Q-Hugo Won
Montclair Film Festival 30 October 2022 Special Junior Jury Award for Performance Eden Dambrine Won [47]
Seville European Film Festival 12 November 2022 Golden Giraldillo Close Nominated [48]
Golden Jury Award Won
Best Actor Eden Dambrine Won
British Independent Film Awards 4 December 2022 Best International Independent Film Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens, Michiel Dhont, Dirk Impens Nominated [49]
National Board of Review 8 December 2022 Best International Film Close Won [50]
European Film Awards 10 December 2022 Best Film Nominated [51]
Best Director Lukas Dhont Nominated
Best Screenwriter Lukas Dhont and Angelo Tijssens Nominated
Best Actor Eden Dambrine Nominated
European University Film Award Close Nominated [52]
27 June 2023 LUX European Audience Film Award Won [53]
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association 12 December 2022 Best International/Foreign Language Film Nominated [54]
Chicago Film Critics Association 14 December 2022 Best Foreign Language Film Nominated [55]
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association 18 December 2022 Best International Film Nominated [56]
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association 19 December 2022 Best Foreign Language Film Runner-up [57]
Belgian Film Critics Association 20 December 2022 Grand Prix Nominated [58]
André Cavens Award for Best Film Won [59]
San Diego Film Critics Society 6 January 2023 Best International Film Nominated [60]
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle 9 January 2023 Best International Feature Film Nominated [61]
[62]
Austin Film Critics Association 10 January 2023 Best International Film Nominated [63]
Golden Globe Awards 10 January 2023 Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language Nominated [64]
Georgia Film Critics Association 13 January 2023 Best International Film Nominated [65]
Critics' Choice Movie Awards 15 January 2023 Best Foreign Language Film Nominated [66]
Palm Springs International Film Festival 16 January 2023 Best International Feature Film Nominated [67]
Ensor Awards 4 February 2023 Best Sound Vincent Sinceretti & Yanna Soentjens Won [68]
Best Original Score Valentin Hadjadj Nominated
Best Screenplay Lukas Dhont and Angelo Tijssens Won
Best Production Design Eve Martin Nominated
Best Costume Design Manu Verschueren Nominated
Best Director Lukas Dhont Won
Best Cinematography Frank van den Eeden Won
Best Editing Alain Dessauvage Nominated
Outstanding Performance in a Leading Role Eden Dambrine Won
Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role Gustav De Waele Nominated
Émilie Dequenne Nominated
Léa Drucker Nominated
Best Film Close Won
Houston Film Critics Society 18 February 2023 Best Foreign Language Feature Nominated [69]
César Awards 24 February 2023 Best Foreign Film Nominated [70]
Hollywood Critics Association Awards 24 February 2023 Best International Film Nominated [71]
Satellite Awards 3 March 2023 Best Motion Picture – International Nominated [72]
Best Original Screenplay Lukas Dhont and Angelo Tijssens Nominated
Magritte Awards 4 March 2023 Most Promising Actor Eden Dambrine Won [73]
Gustav De Waele Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Igor Van Dessel Won
Best Supporting Actress Émilie Dequenne Won
Best Original Screenplay Lukas Dhont and Angelo Tijssens Won
Best Flemish Film Close Won
Best Cinematography Frank van den Eeden Won
Best Production Design Eve Martin Won
Best Costume Design Manu Verschueren Nominated
Best Editing Alain Dessauvage Nominated
Dublin International Film Festival 4 March 2023 Dublin Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Eden Dambrine Won [74]
Academy Awards 12 March 2023 Best International Feature Film Belgium Nominated [6]
Gaudí Awards 4 February 2024 Best European Film Close Nominated [75]
Polish Film Award 4 March 2024 Best European Film Nominated [76]
Bodil Awards 16 March 2024 Best Non-English Language Film Won [77]

See also

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