A multiple award-winner, Jean-Pierre Sinapi's second feature is a tribute to both his sister and a handicapped friend whose desire for love was undimmed at his death. It's a resolutely unpatronising portrayal of disabled people, with their appetites and prejudices as prominent as their limitations and courage.
The opening segment, depicting the traumatic realities of disability, stands in contrast to the jocular tone of the rest, as a hospital's residents cotton on to the fact that nurse Julie (Kaci) has grown so weary of the disruptive antics of RenÚ (Gourmet) that she weekly shuttles him off to assignations with a hooker in a lay-by on the Nationale 7. But, though sex plays a major part, this is primarily a film about acceptance (physical, racial, sexual, religious), and Sinapi makes his points without soap-boxing.