I saw this film at the 11th Philadelphia Gay Lesbian Film Festival. The titular grandson is gay, but nothing much is made of it in the film and it is certainly not the engine that drives the story.
Guillaume is a petulant twenty-something who regularly visits his grandmother. While there, it seems that all they do is fight and snipe at each other, but all of this posturing simply masks a deep hurt they both feel over the early death of the boy's mother from breast cancer.
Feeling abandoned by his mother, Guillaume takes it out on his grandmother who is eccentric in ways that drive the young man crazy. Still, they have a very strong bond and it is only through time and the intervention of a couple of other characters, the boy's older lover, a young gay student who takes a housekeeping position with the grandmother and a small, but very intelligent boy who the grandmother sometimes babysits that our hero, and I will call him our hero Guillaume finally takes his mothers ashes to Scotland to disperse them according to her final wishes.
It is a wonderful, emotional moment. Filmed in a New Wave style, the film has the appearance of just happening before your eyes. Don't be put off by this gem. It takes a few minutes to get into, but once you are there, your in for a nice ride.
Guillaume is a petulant twenty-something who regularly visits his grandmother. While there, it seems that all they do is fight and snipe at each other, but all of this posturing simply masks a deep hurt they both feel over the early death of the boy's mother from breast cancer.
Feeling abandoned by his mother, Guillaume takes it out on his grandmother who is eccentric in ways that drive the young man crazy. Still, they have a very strong bond and it is only through time and the intervention of a couple of other characters, the boy's older lover, a young gay student who takes a housekeeping position with the grandmother and a small, but very intelligent boy who the grandmother sometimes babysits that our hero, and I will call him our hero Guillaume finally takes his mothers ashes to Scotland to disperse them according to her final wishes.
It is a wonderful, emotional moment. Filmed in a New Wave style, the film has the appearance of just happening before your eyes. Don't be put off by this gem. It takes a few minutes to get into, but once you are there, your in for a nice ride.