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I Am Jonas

Jonas

  • Status: Released
  • 23-11-2018
  • Runtime: 82 min
  • Score: 6.8
  • Vote count: 255

When Jonas was 14 he met the charismatic but mysterious Nathan. In addition to guiding him in grappling with his sexuality, Jonas soon confronts something dark and even dangerous about his new friend. Now an attractive, sexually assured adult, memories from this time still haunt Jonas.

Félix Maritaud

Jonas (adult)

Nicolas Bauwens

Jonas (teenager)

Tommy Lee Baïk

Nathan

Aure Atika

Nathan's Mother

Ilian Bergala

Léonard

Marie Denarnaud

Jonas's Mother

Pierre Cartonnet

Jonas's Father

Nicolas Sartous

The Predator

David Baïot

Samuel

Julien Naccache

Grindr Guy

Edith Saulnier

Caroline (teenager)

Ingrid Graziani

Caroline

Marcel Bouzige

le garçon moqueur

Jean-Luc Rehel

le voisin

John Karalian

le mec du Boys Paradise

Peggy Mahieu

l'infirmière

Bernard Massoni

vieil homme malade

Annie Pardo

vieille dame de l’hôpital

Ali Pekoz

videur du Boys Paradise 2015

Cyril Bertucci

videur du Boys Paradise 1997

Daniel Lawless

policier 2015

Franck Libert

policier 1997

Matthieu Lestrade

professeur d’histoire-géographie

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This is quite a well put together little drama recounting the life of "Jonas" through the twin threads of his late childhood and of a current day thirty-something. Félix Maritaud plays the elder incarnation in a typically gritty and plausible way (though he does look like he could do with a good meal!) with Nicolas Bauwens as his younger, largely conformist, self. My problem is that the narrative that gets us from person A to person B - via a new schoolfriend "Nathan" doesn't quite work. There is an incident, which we do discover at the end, but it leaves me with a feeling of incompleteness. Perhaps that's Christophe Charrier's plan - that there are no "happy endings", but I am struggling to fathom just how Jonas got onto this path of self destruction and his life, so out of hand in the first place. As with loads of French gay cinema, it is filmed at night - via street light - and is all the more evocative for that.