Fögi est un salaud / Fögi is a Bastard - Switzerland / France (1998)

“Fögi, a drugged-out punk singer has an obsessive, dysfunctional affair with Beni, a 15-year-old boy groupie. This gay-friendly Swiss / French film pushes the edge of the permissible and the believable and does not go anywhere but downhill, though it isn’t without a certain sweetness. It deserves a tiny but special spot in the roster of drug and music films, somewhere is a remote branch off from Velvet Goldmine and Sid and Nancy. More than that, it is courageous and tasteful in its straightforward and sexy treatment of man-boy love, and one can well understand that some viewers find it very special. Both of the principals are attractive, and Fögi may be a bastard, but he has a lot of charm as well.”
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