Very well executed

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

This is a story of Laurent dealing with his conservative parents about him being gay.This film tackles the modern way of family issue about their son being gay. I couldn't understand why they didn't just support them or be happy about them. I feel bad to people who experiences the same situation like Laurent. His Dad prefer him to leave than try to understand him. Mom are the heroes of the family they have heart to support their son although at some point its still hard for them to accept it.Its love. Why people can't understand the power of it? We are all human being who feel this love to a human being. Why its hard to some people that, we love the person because they share love to each other and not because of its gender? Love is being felt by two person.Love is love no matter who you share it with. It just happen that the person he loves is in the body of a guy, but its just the same love like girl loves the guy or guy loves the girl.We just need to be open-minded. If we think how wrong it was the gay to the society. What do you think they feel for themselves? and those who still afraid to come out because they doesn't want to be abandon by the people they love.This movie was a message for the parents to treasure their gay son. Not because they are gay but because they are their kids. Came from them and the one they take care of.

Nice story. Well cast. And the love as a problem with different nuances but same essence. Not impressive, it is a movie about images and sense of freedom. Errors who must be the necessary gesture and relationships like spider web. With the two beautiful actors, the tall is easy. Usually French film with few drops of gay problems. Result - a work in which the feelings and expectations, fights and gray perceptions are human. It is only a small detail presence of a gay characters. In fact, the most important character is the mothers. Delicate mom of Laurent, for who the truth is a huge hole. The mother of Cedric for who his son is more than a public image. For each of one, the pain is same. Only difference - grow up of answer. But it is only a question of love intensity.

This drama was made for French TV.It seems that France makes much better TV movies than we do in the US.This starts in the same way many comedies start (meet -cute). Our young handsome hero has not come out to his parents. VERY GOOD REASON, his father is a BIGOT of the first order. Our young lad's somewhat older lover does have an understanding Mother. We do have a very pretty young lady who is a fellow student of our hero. The parents assume its a romance between girl & boy.Now all this we have seen before in many films. We expect the typical ending we see all the time,NOT here,I cannot reveal the ending, I will just say it is a most satisfying one.The acting is first rate all the way through,,The production values are also first rate.I really do not like downing American TV movies, But we do not make this kind of realistic Gay Themed films that can & should be seen by a large audience.Ratings:***1/2 (out of 4) 91 points (out of 100) IMDDB (9 out of 10)

Laurent (a vibrant Cyrille Thouvenin) is a 23-year-old agricultural student in Lille (with a passion for poetry) who knows he's gay but lets his parents think he's straight and that his roommate Carole (a sweet Caroline Veyt) is his future wife. He's held in this bind by the fact that a gay cousin, Marc, who was like a brother to him, came out only to wind up dying rejected by his parents, an example of in-family homophobia that seems to have been all too well accepted by his own mother and father. Laurent has been on a downward spiral in school ever since Marc's death. Marc's parents are around at family parties, the mother a basket case on tranquilizers, the father stolid and still unforgiving. This angers Laurent, but the trouble is that his mom and dad, who run a pharmacy, are very dear to him. He loves his parents; he loves family; and he loves kids. But he's stuck in a charade. It's already hurting Carole, who's more than a little in love with him, though she knows full well about his sexuality.All this has to change when Laurent is attached as a trainee (stagère) to a nursery and lab run by the slightly older Cédric (sexy, soulful Stéphan Guérin-Tillié) and they fall in love.The more grown up and independent Cédric is impatient with Laurent's playing the "little hetero to mom and dad." When he came out to his mother Emma (Eva Darlan) 11 years earlier on the death of his dad, Cédric said she could "take it or leave it." Laurent's pretense is exploded from an unexpected source. The film takes us sympathetically through the pain of Laurent's parents and Emma's efforts to help.The special virtue of Just a Question of Love is its balance. If it's primarily from the point of view of Laurent, and secondarily Cédric, and takes pains (though it's joyful, not painful) to make their love real (without any explicit nudity or sex though, just passionate kissing), it's just as much about the parents' difficult journey toward understanding of their sons' sexuality.A beautiful gay coming-out-to-the-parents film that had an unusually high viewership and almost universally positive response when shown originally on French TV, this has meant a lot to a lot of gay men, especially young ones thinking about love and conflicts with parents and the kind of "intense love relationship such as I dream of having and regret not to have had up till now," as one young French blogger typically put it. In IMDb comments that rate it, it has gotten nothing but a 10/10: enough said? Splendid performances by everybody, especially Thouvenin, Guérin-Tillié, and Darlan; this is far more than a "TV movie" and like some of the best contemporary French films, manages to be both elegant and emotionally direct.With his looks and personality, Cyrille Thouvenin is irresistible in the film: he's always running and leaping, troubled, acting out, but also bursting with youthful energy and smiles. The restrained but warm Eva Darlan is also very memorable. This is the kind of film a gay man can watch over and over, with much pleasure and some tears. Doing so is also helping my French quite a bit.