2023-12-20 14:25:08
What if men became escorts to better understand female desires, understand how their sexuality works, and become more mature? With lightness, humor and intelligence, it is the challenge of Escort Boys (Prime Video) from director Ruben Alves.
Photo caption: HEY, HONEY_ Producers Myriam Gharbi De Vasselot and Charlotte Toledano Detaille asked Ruben Alvès to adapt the Israeli series Milk and Honey. Result ? The actors (from left to right) Guillaume Labbé, Corentin Fila, Simon Ehrlacher and Thibaut Evrard play four Escort Boys apprentices… Yihaaa!
With its delightful series Escort Boysdirector Ruben Alves further asserts his trademark: go through the radicality of kitsch to surface notions of extreme complexity. It was Alexandra, subtly played by Alexandre Wetter, in Miss, in 2020, – a young man feels like a young woman, he will then try to win the Miss France competition to assert himself and find the courage to be who he wants to be –, which questioned the idea of femininity . They are Ben, Mathias, Ludo and Zach, respectively played by Guillaume Labbé, Simon Ehrlacher, Thibaut Evrard and Corentin Fila, who take back their lives and question the concept of masculinity by becoming an escort.
In a modern and sexy western setting, in the Camargue, four lost guys, thrown into a tangle of ordinary problems (mourning, money, relationships and family), grow up, as Balzacian characters mature, by selling their bodies. – for some, ultra stereotypical (the muscles protrude in the middle of the Camargue dust). As in Miss, emotions are diffuse: we laugh, we get sad – and we think. What do these four escorts tell us regarding masculinity today?
The poster is misleading (four guys on the front of the stage), because it is through the exposure of the profusion of female desires that Ruben Alves examines masculinity. Requests as contemporary as they are as old as time pass by: from intersectional sex to emotional comfort, ordering an escort here goes beyond the flat imagination of pornography, although itself approached through the features of Corentin Fila (known as Zach).
In six episodes of approximately forty minutes each, Escort Boyswhose plot is tied around a beekeeping estate in the middle of pink flamingos, manages to touch the Holy Grail for a series: forcing us to devour it, quickly.
As for what it means to be a man today, it is up to the viewer to ask themselves: the answer is not given for granted, because it can only be personal. In any case, sex, whether it is monetized (here 300 euros per pass), or not, contributes to its definition. Filmed in spring 2022, this series will bring sunshine to your Christmas sofas.
Par Alexis Lacourte
Photos Romain Favre
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