Ricky Mastro’s latest LGBTQ+ film has an intriguing start. Two extremely handsome young men have a passionate but uncontrolled Chemsex session in a hotel room.You start to pigeonhole the piece as art bordering on soft porn, when you’re pulled up short.
First Kevin collapses and dies and then 7 minutes later – hence the title- his boyfriend Maxime also succumbs.But it’s not that straightforward a narrative as you constantly find in this sometimes annoyingly opaque film .
Maxime’s father Jean is a 55- year-old police commander in Toulouse, France , where the film is set.And Jean doesn’t accept the autopsy results – drug overdose – because both boys were also found hanged.There follows a meandering morality tale as Jean, played with moody.