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Marcel Gisler. who also directed 'Blue Hour', directed this Swiss-French drama set during the early '70s in Zurich where Beni , (very well acted by Vincent Branchet) a clean cut 16 year old Zurich high school student is just itching for an alternative life.

That opportunity comes when he goes to a rock concert and falls madly in love with Fogi, (Frederic Andrau) a 26 year old, the dangerously attractive lead guitarist and singer of the group The Minks.

With looks suggesting a thuggish Keanu Reeves, the 26 year old Fogi surprisingly takes to the cute, but coltish youth after recieving a love letter sent by Beni setting up a rendezvous. Beni exits his fatherless family and his high school to move in with Fogi. Beni is eager to do anything to please Fogi and Fogi hires him as a roadie. Unfortunately Fogi comes with some heavy baggage with a history of heavy drug use, drug dealing and an attitude that old people (40+) should consider committing suicide. The two begin a wild sexual attraction that hardens into love and devotion for Beni but wears off for the soon bored Fogi and his attitude toward Beni veers toward sadism.

Beni, willing victim for this first love, is emotionally eaten alive by his slavish devotion, lust and eventual servitude to the increasingly indifferent Fogi. Fogi is tiring of Beni's clinging and of life in general. and makes light of Beni's eagerness to please by having Beni strip and pretend to be a pet dog. Beni takes to the role and makes the initial acquaintance of a (symbolic) white dog. Foegi likes this distance. Wearing a dog collar, Beni begins to manifest the symbolism of that role into his reality believing that it will bring satisfaction and pleasure to the object of his love and devotion.

When the "The Minks" start running out of gas, Fogi gets into conflicts with some other band members and decides to take a two week trip to Lebanon to get hashish for dealing. Beni, left behind is desperately lonely lets himself be picked up by an educated and professional man. When Foegi returns, the tryst is forgiven, but it gives Foegi an idea of how he can make money by "renting" Beni out.

As Foegi continues drifting downward, Beni becomes the primary breadwinner and manager of the household. The two stay together but the relationship sinks into alienation, drug addiction and self destruction. Fogi's demons take them down to a beach at St. Tropez, where Beni must face whether to continue on the path of inevitable darkness with his love. "Resolution" comes on that beach at San Trope.

The film screened and won awards at the Locarno Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the Montreal World Film Festival.

Film Information: 'Fogi is a Bastard'

Web: Cast, Bios and Additional Details at IMDb
Director: Marcel Gisler
Writers: Martin Frank (novel) and Marcel Gisler (writer)
Cast, Crew & Credits: Full Cast, Crew & Credits
Genre: Drama | Romance
Awards:2 wins & 1 nomination
Runtime: 91 min
Spoken Language: French
Subtitled in: English

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