Vers la tendresse

Vers la tendresse reveals the intimate masculine landscapes of four young men from the Paris suburbs, who open up to us about their love and sex lives. Over the course of a series of interviews, the initial aim of which was to scout out locations for a fiction film, Alice Diop accesses these accounts imbued with sincerity and modesty, opting to give substance to voices that are rarely heard expressing themselves on this subject. The filmmaker chooses to juxtapose these voices, which tell us how difficult it is to feel, share or express tenderness, with images of their daily lives, which form the stage on which an unceasing performance of masculinity plays out. The urban environment, which represents this social injunction, thus contrasts with what these young men express: their desire to love and be loved. An iridescent visual canvas on which female bodies are cut into silhouettes, sometimes nebulous, sometimes inaccessible, the film gradually moves from a disillusioned and cynical perspective to the certainty that there is a place for tenderness.
Tania Rochat

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