A Bildungsroman of a French gay boy hailed from the slurb, young Marvin Bijoux (Porier) is bullied in the school ostensibly for his effeminate mien (which doesn’t click with this reviewer, he is merely a sensitive, handsome boy), not to mention that his family name “bijoux” doesn’t help to generate much masculinity in him.

Director Anne Fontaine nails the toxic milieu where Marvin grows up, a blue-collar family rigged up by Dany and Odile Bijoux (Gadebois and Salée), both married before, their union is a rambunctious skein of bickering, cussing and negligence where physical violence can crop up at the drop of a hat. Marvin stands out like a sore thumb both in the school and at home, only through the perspicacity of the new school principal Ms. Clément (Mouchet, a patiently saintly figure whose decorous appearance we cannot get enough of), he finds his bent for acting when he joins an improv student group.

Alternating to and fro from Marvin the teenager to Marvin the adult (Oldfield), whose pursuance of an acting vocation comes across with a minted sugar daddy Roland (Berling), a gay author Abel Pinto (Macaigne) and the world-renown French actress Isabelle Huppert herself, who will vouchsafe him her appearance in his breakthrough fringe theatrical work, extracted from his own wretched childhood with high fidelity, REINVENTING MARVIN freewheels with a discursive rhythm that doesn’t necessarily pinpoints the two narrative’s interrelations, and as brilliant as a young Porier maxes out Marvin’s striking presence of mind with precocious introspection, a beady-eyed Oldfield errs on the side of Marvin’s pensiveness, nigh on a faintly repulsing air of narcissism.

When Marvin Bijoux finally morphs into Martin Clément, a quite banal name he chooses to sever the tie with his piteous past, Fontaine unleashes her quarter in concocting excuses for Martin’s parents, while Odile obliviously pleads that the household has always been a happy one and they are not homophobic (does she forget the verbal abuse happening right under their grotty roof? or in her senses, that doesn’t count for homophobia?), Dany, remarried after he and Odile finally fed up with each other, rekindles an amicable relationship with Martin and accepts his sexuality, but ostensibly after he finds out that at least one of his children has done something extraordinary enough to be printed on the newspaper, one can only assume that Fontaine knows humanity all too well, but in afterthought, a reconciliation built chiefly upon fulfilled vanity doesn’t taste good. Although Fontaine’s work is, as one might suspect, high on Gallic sophistication quotient, cunningly insinuating the hypocrisy of a peckerwood family after portraying its existence as a hellhole is just too mean-spirited to meet substantive pats on its back.

referential entries: Anne Fontaine’s COCO BEFORE CHANEL (2009, 4.8/10); Robin Campillo’s BPM (BEATS PER MINUTE) (2017, 8.1/10); Alain Guiraudie’s STAY VERTICAL (2016, 7.4/10).

影片的最后马文和家人之间终于解开了存在了二十多年的桎梏，电影好像就在告诉我们其实同性恋不是问题，当你能够有所成就自然就能抵抗其他人的流言蜚语，他们自然会认同你，这其中当然包括你的父母；但事情的实质就是这样吗？马文因为从小就听到父亲管同性恋者叫死基佬于是刻意隐瞒了自己的身份，他也从未向父母提起过这件事，他的性格使他将这一切都藏在自己心里。他的父亲很可能只是因为说话粗俗惯了才说出那样一个侮辱性的词汇。电影的结尾我们很容易看出父亲、母亲都是能接受他的性取向的，而他望向母亲深情又逃避的眼神证明了他对父母依然饱含着爱。我觉得这只是一家人缺乏沟通而导致的互相误解，好在最终马文的成名使得误会得到消解。但对于许许多多平凡的同性恋者来说，家人之间的误解在时间的惯性下依然会一直存在，并不是没有爱了，只是互相都不愿意去表现了。唯有像马文一样对世界有自己的思考，做出一件不平凡的事来，才是最好的出柜方式。

另外，少年马文的忧郁气质也太浑然天成了吧，让人好想关心他。

前段时间，美国同志电影《爱你，西蒙》在国内外刷屏。

除了蜜糖一般的恋情之外，让杉姐最难忘的是西蒙的父母。

知道儿子是同性恋之后，母亲说：西蒙，你还是那个我喜欢调侃的儿子，还是那个你爸爸给予重托的儿子，还是那个即使妹妹做饭难吃也还是鼓励她的哥哥。

父亲说：你确认自己喜欢同性四年了，四年了我们一起吃饭、一起看电影、一起遛狗，对不起，我不该没看出来......

一对教科书级别的父母，让出柜变成了初恋这件小事。

然而，不是每个孩子都拥有这样的父母。

杉姐今天要推荐第74届威尼斯电影节，酷儿狮奖的获奖影片《重塑马文》。

海报中的于佩尔阿姨还是那么美，电影远远比于佩尔阿姨精彩。

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看完回味了一下，这部片怎么讲呢，很真实吧。小镇家庭的孩子，家庭学校各方面的局限性，可以说很真切地展现了出来。和大都市丰富的文化土壤、发达地区开放家庭的中产（love simon那种）非常不同，来自相对闭塞地环境下的同志孩子，更加难以寻找生活的光明和希望。刚看完觉得不解气的是，校园霸凌并没有得到惩罚。一开始新校长还说你们这些捣蛋的孩子我有的是办法对付你们，可是后来校园这条线并没有发展下去，除了她发现了马文的表演天赋。不过这似乎也更接近现实——校园霸凌过了就过了，没有人发现，也没有惩罚。同志的话题往往被引导到两个极端，极喜极温情极甜美的出柜爱情甚至事业多丰收，极悲极可憎极残忍的老病死或同妻。有很多平凡的故事因为其平凡，缺少戏剧冲突而一直在大众视野中透明。马文运气不错，长得不丑，还遇到了几个在关键时刻点拨他的思想的贵人。但有更多的同志，他们长相平凡，性格也没法讨喜，事业也不见得获得世俗的成功，也没有交到能给与支持、关怀和教导的朋友。直人平凡可以安稳一世，但同志平凡就处处受制。可他们依然deserve爱情、友情、和基本权利的保障。这也就是我们为什么要努力把对同志的认同感变成社会的共识，并写进制度。但总的来说，这部片子依然十分真实，抛开马文最后的成名，在这前面，小人物们的刻画我觉得更加可贵，因为这展示了平时不为人关注但存在于世上每一个角落的人和事。校园的嘲笑甚至欺侮，试探家长的口气，得到否定答案后封闭自己，这种真实的窒息感；从事一份普通工作，面对现实与理想差距，随波逐流的沮丧；被富人看上，高贵生活触手可及的迷茫和忐忑……这些是很多基佬都有同理心的瞬间。虽然时间线的跳跃令人觉得诡异，但是真实、散漫和随性，可能是这部片的最大特点吧。

这是法国电影，那么是否可以推断，即使是法国，电影中的马文的故事是否真的上演？

感觉马文还是生活在一个充满爱的家吧，只不过这爱有局限，这里的爱不是理解或者关心。

片子中很多可以找到一点相似感觉，像是对着。 bully的幻想；听到父亲对基佬的评价和用这个词形容自己后无助的感觉；遇到金主时，迷茫又无法抗拒………

借用“我为勾勾狂”的一段台词

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