Hidden Kisses

2/2/2024

At times this does rather stretch the bounds of plausibility at a school in 21st century France, but the sentiment behind it is quite worryingly potent. A photo emerges of a kiss! We know that one of the kissers is "Nathan" (Bérenger Anceaux) but who is the other? What piques the curiosity of his schoolmates is that the other kisser is also a boy! Drunken game? Wind-up? True love? What now ensues does hit the stereotype skids once or twice as we discover his dad is a policeman (Patrick Timsit), largely unimpressed with his son's behaviour and somewhat pre-occupied with the gossip he faces at work. We now see a school where the boy is bullied and beaten with alacrity despite what I would have thought would have been intervention from an headmaster who seems more worried about perception tha

8/30/2026

This is an incredible movie and worth watching more than once. I won't give any spoilers, but the premise is a widowed father and his son move into a new school district and the son is nervous about fitting in, so he attends a party. At the party another male student reveals that he likes him and they kiss, but an unknown person takes a picture and posts it online. While the new student's face is visible, the boy he was kissing wasn't. This upends the school as to who took the picture and who the other boy was! In time you do get the answer to both questions and after much trauma it arrives at happy ending.