I Dreamt Under the Water
“Love is a drug; sex, an addiction.”
DramaRomance
Antoine, a handsome boy in his 20s, falls for a straight best friend who does not reciprocate, and being a junkie exits the film quite early. Enter a girl, who seems to make him happy again, after he has tried living as a rent boy with men, having some familial, financial difficulties. But the girl is a junkie too.
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A devastatingly intimate portrait of young love and addiction. It feels like a raw, melancholic descent into despair, exploring the painful complexities of identity and unrequited desire with a bleak, yet beautiful, realism.
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