{"id":4749,"date":"2009-06-25T14:59:38","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T22:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=4749"},"modified":"2009-06-27T12:18:43","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T20:18:43","slug":"hollywood-je-taime-jason-bushman-2009-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=4749","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Je t’aime (Jason Bushman, 2009): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Byron Potau<\/a>.\u00a0 Viewed at The Mann Festival\u00a0Theatre as part of the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\"\"The gay and lesbian community has in writer\/director Jason Bushman\u2019s\u00a0Hollywood Je t\u2019aime<\/a><\/em>\u00a0a film that they can be very proud of.\u00a0 For the heterosexual viewer, there is plenty to enjoy if viewers are tolerant and comfortable with their own sexuality, and if not, they\u2019re missing out on a wonderfully charming film.<\/p>\n

Gay Parisian, Jerome Beaunez (Eric Debets), flies to sunny Los Angeles after his break up with boyfriend Gilles (Jonathan Blanc), with a vague idea of becoming an actor.\u00a0 Jerome immediately falls in with the gay crowd including pot dealer Ross (Chad Allen), and transsexual Kaleesha (Diarra Kilpatrick) and transvestite Norma Desire (Michael Airington).\u00a0 He is able to crash in a spare bedroom at Norma\u2019s place while with Ross\u2019s help he is able to get a couple of auditions, and finally land a commercial.\u00a0 Gilles continues to pop up as Jerome\u2019s subconscious, offering advice on his situation.<\/p>\n

This film is a surprisingly fresh and funny light comedy that, at times,\u00a0gets very graphic in its depiction of the gay lifestyle.\u00a0 Eric Debets is wonderful as the soft spoken and charming Jerome, and we cannot help but like him just as much as everyone in the film does.\u00a0 The rest of the cast is just as good, never becoming annoying and staying true to who they are.\u00a0 It is very refreshing to see gay characters portrayed with such a full depth to their personalities rather than the annoying caricatures we got from Gus Van Sant\u2019s Milk.\u00a0 Bushman clearly has a feeling for who these characters are, and is able to show us the full personality making them much more than gay characters.<\/p>\n

The film shines most brightly in the hilarious audition and acting scenes as Bushman is able to zero in on every laughable excess, insincerity, desperation, and phoniness with just a single line or action.\u00a0 Intelligently written and directed, every one of these scenes is a gem and will especially have those in the know rolling in the aisles; however, they are not so obtuse that others won\u2019t get the joke.\u00a0 This is a delightful film for everyone but the most prejudiced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Byron Potau.\u00a0 Viewed at The Mann Festival\u00a0Theatre as part of the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival. The gay and lesbian community has in writer\/director Jason Bushman\u2019s\u00a0Hollywood Je t\u2019aime\u00a0a film that they can be very proud of.\u00a0 For the heterosexual viewer, there is plenty to enjoy if viewers are tolerant and comfortable with their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-los-angeles-film-festival-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}