C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)

The film is centered on a family and in particular on one of the five sons, who early on shows some gender-role-defying peculiarities which are frowned upon by his father and by the bigotted society he lives in (Quebec in the 70s); he forgoes his homosexual propensities until he can no longer.

The conflicts and characters are schematic, and the building of a suffocating environment around the main character is done at the cost of verisimilitude; the weird superstitions indulged at by the hero's mother, for instance, don't seem compatible with believable adult behavior.

Rating: 43