00:00Is it possible to love without questioning our sexuality?
00:08What is it like to be a man?
00:10What is it like to be a woman?
00:12What is it like to be homosexual?
00:13What is it like to be heterosexual?
00:14What is it like to be a woman?
00:28I've lived this all my life.
00:30I've lived with the sexual ambiguity of men all my twenties.
00:36Without ever being able to figure out what we were,
00:40with people who wanted to live their sexuality with me,
00:44but in secret, who wanted to explore it,
00:46but who felt ashamed of it, uncomfortable.
00:49It was important for me to finally talk about it in a film,
00:53from a cathartic point of view,
00:56but also because I realize that my generation
01:02is quite different from the younger generation
01:06in terms of the fluidity of gender, of sexuality.
01:10The film is also born from a conversation I had with Catherine,
01:13where I told her,
01:15you know, when you and I graduated from high school,
01:18a man who kissed a man was gay,
01:21and a man who kissed a woman was heterosexual,
01:23and it wasn't that complicated.
01:26And the strength is to see that nature is constantly evolving,
01:34and I find that my generation is almost at the same level
01:36as the younger generation.
01:38Our notions, the notions we've been taught,
01:42often toxic, about masculinity,
01:46sexuality, heterosexuality, homosexuality,
01:49this way of ghettoizing each gender,
01:51each gesture, each sexuality,
01:53of categorizing them, let's say, rather than ghettoizing,
01:55sorry, categorizing.
01:57It's something I've lived with all my life,
02:00at a time when other people live much more easily
02:03with the younger ones,
02:05the real new youth is inspiring in its freedom,
02:11but it's also counterproductive at times,
02:14for us who have, I have the impression,
02:17blockages, at least me, who feel that I have blockages.
02:20The openness of mind, the flexibility, the fluidity
02:22with which this younger generation approaches
02:25gender, sexuality, their identity,
02:29is new for us.
02:31To question what was acquired,
02:33to question the order of things,
02:35is always complex for anyone, I think.
02:38There's a line in the film that was cut,
02:41where Max's character said he felt old,
02:43and his friend Frank said to him,
02:45but no, you're not old, you're just 30,
02:47we're still young.
02:49And he said, yes, we're still young,
02:51but we're not the young ones anymore.
02:54It sums up how I feel.
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