Sorry Angel (15)

ONLY in France is being a minor novelist considered an excuse for behaving badly, and in this film, a fortysomething writer is allowed every indulgence as he conducts an affair with a younger man.

Christophe Honoré’s film premiered at Cannes and stars Pierre Deladonchamps as the handsome Jacques, who is forced to give a reading in Rennes ( Mon

Dieu, so provincial!). In his existential boredom, he picks up a young bisexual student Arthur (Vincent Lacoste) and enjoys a night of passion. But this is 1993, and Jacques is HIV positive and slowly dying, with no cure in sight.

Arthur tries to connect with Jacques, but gets the cold shoulder, as does Jacques’ young son, in this baggy, irritating drama where everything is sacrificed for art.