by Douglas Messerli
Raphaël Rivest and Charlotte van Ghinhoven (screenplay), Raphaël Rivest (director) Beau Mâle
Recherche (Hot Guy Looking For) / 2015 [5 minutes]
O the dilemmas delivered up by services like Grindr. For the businessman hero
Pierre-Luc (Vincent Bellefleur) of French-Canadian director Raphaël Rivest it
is a night and day search for the right person.
We see him rise early in the
morning, enter the bathroom to brush his teeth and immediately open his
cellphone to check out who has linked to him. One by one—most of the characters
portrayed also by Bellefleur, the others Guillaume Lambert—Pierre-Luc rejects
the ridiculous men who are ready to join him in sex, a drink in the bar, some
serious fun, or whatever else they might propose.
Throughout breakfast he is
again challenged by undesirables. But soon it is time to head off to work.
Yet the minute he returns home, he again beset by a host of willing individuals
whom he recognizes are not to his taste. Even while he showers, his cellphone
buzzes, him briefly exciting the cubicle only to once again shout “no” at the
next auditioner of the pestering lineup of men. Frying up a small thigh and leg
of chicken, he is once more hounded with images of men he can’t imagine
spending an hour with, let alone a night.
The lights go out, and he falls peacefully to sleep, alone once again.
It’s quite clear that this picky connoisseur of
gay men will perhaps never find someone who can meet his standards.
Los Angeles, October 5, 2025
Reprinted from My Queer Cinema blog (October 2025).
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