Venice Days screening - short review - GERONTOPHILIA by Bruce la Bruce

An 18-year-old discovers his sexual fetishism for old men after he falls in love with an 81-year-old inhabitant of the nursing home he works in. Bruce la Bruce returns with another controversial. Yet this time he ditches - perhaps momentarily - his visual explicitness and usual tastelesness for a more classicist and romantic approach in quite a remarkable way. With production values upped and a more complex narrative, Gerontophilia not only shows that Bruce la Bruce could perhaps re-invent himself as a more mainstream kind of non conformist filmmaker, but also represents his audacity at creating a film which audaciously represents a kind of remarkable artistic rebirth.