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Original title
Les invisibles
Director
Sébastien Lifshitz
Country
France




Cast
Yann and Pierre
Bernard and Jacques
Catherine and Elisabeth
Pierrot
Thérèse
Christian
Monique
Jacques
Production
Zadig Films
Distribution
Doc & Film
Genre
Documental
Duration
115'
Year
2012
Festivals
Cannes
Gothenburg
Hong Kong (LGBT Film Festival)
London (BFI)
Paris (LGBT Film Festival)
Thessaloniki (documentaries)
Vancouver
First showing in
Spain
Official Section: Documentary films
Les invisibles
Sébastien Lifshitz tells the history of 11 French men and women over 70 years old who decided to have an open gay life when they were young and public opinion was against homosexuality. How dis they overcome the thoughts and talks of others? Where did they find peace? How did they find partners without any positive social referent? Some of these characters lived openly in big cities; the rest chose to settle down in the quiet countryside. All shown testimonials make us understand that the French were mostly free to live as they wanted; the scandalous back then was not being gay, but to talk about it. All along the characters' youth, their coming-out stories, their passions and their relationships were not "registered", and because of that nowadays we have an important absence of older homosexuals in our social codes. This film is a mix of stories, all of them gathered by Sébastien Lifshitz's extraordinary cinematography, with its beautiful images of fields, trees, clouds... A quiet and appeased nature after years of turmoil: the palpable nature, at last visible.
Official website> sebastienlifshitz.com/