“I’ve always tended to be a little different…” This sentence that Amin says at the beginning of the movie (2D animated documentary by Danish director Jonas Poher Rasmussen) becomes more and more meaningful as we explore it. this man’s destiny Amin is not his real first name but a default identity that allows him to keep his anonymity. The “character” he creates in the animated footage relies on Jonas Poher Rasmussen and tells his trajectory: the story of a young Afghan teenager who carelessly listens to A-ha’s songs on his Walkman, who discovers his homosexuality in Kabul in the 1980s. When the Taliban come to power, he is forced to flee with his family.
Dubbed in French by actor Kyan Khojandi (whose Iranian father also fled his country), Amin evokes his ordeal: arriving in Moscow amid the collapse of communism, endless waiting in a country. not wanting them, waking up sexually by discovering Jean-Claude Van Damme’s (muscular) films, or even entering Denmark as a refugee at the expense of a secret that would keep her away from her family for a long time. . What he also remembers is how this forced separation somehow exiled him from the others and cast doubt on him in all his relationships. Multi-award winning, nominated three times for the 2022 Oscars, to escape Filmed between Denmark and France, it will be released on August 24, following its release on Arte.
Escape: Monday, May 30 at 20:50 Arte
Frederick Rapilly
Source: Programme Television
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