When he was 11 years old, Félix Maritaud happened upon a book on his grandmother’s shelf. At the height of the pandemic, Cyril Collard’swas considered the French masterpiece on AIDS and the modern man. Collard died March 5th 1993 at the age of 36, 72 hours before the film version of the text he wrote and directed won four Césars, the French equivalent of the Oscars. Maritaud was born the previous December. 11 years later, he read and devoured every word of it.
During the filming Félix would frequently lose himself in the rhythms of the person he had become. Perhaps because he is untrained as an actor, the verité aspect of the work can feel like documentary. He describes his character as “kind of an angel, because he doesn’t belong to anything material. He has no materialistic things to bring into the world. He is only living through his feelings, through his tenderness and love. In mythology angels are not human beings.
The rhythm of the film has a stop-start quality that plays upon and subverts audience intrigue in the life of a hustler. “With sex work,” Félix says, “you have the feeling of desire and unease at the same time.” But the story is not about a profession.It has nothing to offer as a moral valedictory on the subject, as if foreshadowed by Cyril Collard’s ambiguity to the correlation between sex and death inis to turn his character into a blush, a penetration, a promise and a deflation.
Félix doesn’t have a boyfriend. “Oh no. It’s quite difficult to fall in love with a man. I mean, I love a lot of people. But I don’t want a relationship like heterosexual people, a reductive, capitalistic relationship. Maybe as I get older, I’m going to need to share my life with one person. Not now.”Some interesting twists have emerged since’s release in the personal life of Felix Maritaud.
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