Le Beau Mec

PFFB classics, FR 1978, 72 min., engl. Fassung

By: Wallace Potts

With: Karl Forest

Directed by Wallace Potts with choreography provided by Soviet-born ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, who was also Potts’ lover, and camerawork by Néstor Almendros, the cinematographer behind “The Blue Lagoon” and “Sophie’s Choice” – it’s a wonder this gem of classic gay porn was almost lost with names like these behind it. In the good, old days of 1979, pre-AIDS, a handsome hunk, played by Karl Forest, recounts his sexual history in 1970s Paris in vivid detail both visually and through a charming American voiceover not-so-subtly dubbed over the original French. Dreamlike and sexy, fans with a taste for European arthouse and classic gay porn alike shouldn’t miss.

Walter Crasshole