Come Undone

French director Sébastien Lifshitz’s coming of age and out of the closet drama jumps wildly back and forth in time as a university-bound teen boy experiences his first gay encounter, falls in love and recovers from an unexplained suicide attempt. Mathieu (Jérémie Elkaïm) is vacationing at a seaside village with his sister and clinically depressed mother when he meets a local former teen hustler (Wild Reeds’ Stéphane Rideau) who dreams of leaving his waffle shop job and attending computer school. Their bittersweet bonding and squabbling is told with labored ambiguity and graphic sensuality as passion enhances then disrupts Mathieu’s budding independence and inner peace.