Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a rewatch.This French thriller took us off guard earlier this year with its mix of drama, eroticism and intrigue.
7 Minutes follows Jean (Antoine Herbez), a cop mourning the death of his party-boy gay son and his son’s boyfriend after a GHB overdose.
A grieving Jean seeks out Fabien (Clement Naline), another circuit boy who knew the pair in hopes of finding some closure. Instead, Jean—who is straight—finds himself drawn into the circuit world of drugs, dance and wild sex.
As Jean begins to experiment with GHB himself, his “investigation” becomes something far more sinister.7 Minutes doesn’t pull punches when it comes to.