WILD REEDS

| 1995 – 110′ – Drama, Coming of Age, Romance, LGBTQ+, Classic.
Written by: André Téchiné, Gilles Taurand, Olivier Massart.
Directed by: André Téchiné.
Starring: Élodie Bouchez, Gaël Morel, Stéphane Rideau, Frédéric Gorny, Michèle Moretti, Jacques Nolot, Eric Kreikenmayer, Nathalie Vignes.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 1994  (Un Certain Regard). 4 César Awards winner (Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Promising Actress). Official French Entry Academy Awards 1995.
In French with English subtitles.
A Strand Releasing / Lionsgate release. |

At a boarding school in the south of France, timid student Francois (Gaël Morel) discovers his latent homosexuality when he enters into an erotic relationship with farm boy Serge (Jacques Nolot). A bizarre love triangle soon forms between Francois, his best friend Maetie (Élodie Bouchez) and Serge while the French Algerian war rages in the background, paralleling the tumult of self-discovery that comes at the crossroads between youth and adulthood.

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