The Man I Love

L' Homme que j'aime
(1997)

French Film
Directed by Stéphane Giusti
Writing credits Stéphane Giusti

Cast
Jean-Michel Portal....Lucas
Marcial Di Fonzo Bo....Martin
Mathilde Seigner....Lise
Vittoria Scognamiglio....Rose
Jacques Hansen....Père de Lucas
Stéphane Lévêque ....Mathieu
Karim Lounis....Pablo


This is a combination coming out and first love story. The swimmer and diver Lucard is interested in attractive Martin. The film follows the characters' coming out with all its difficulties, the bitter-sweet pleasures of first love and the dreadful moment when one comes down to reality and realizes that one's beloved friend has a hard way to go yet. The positive message the film tries to transmit is the somewhat common motto "Live each day of your life as if it were your last."

THE MAN I LOVE is a uniquely French but touchingly universal film about the bittersweet pleasures that accompany both coming out and falling in love. Martin (Marcial Di Fonzo Bo) is a young gay man who finds himself irresistibly drawn to the handsome Lucas (Jean-Michel Portal), a straight swimmer and diver less than thrilled with Martin's unwanted attentions.
But as the two men embark on a tenuous friendship, they are both surprised by the stirring of new emotions that result in unexpected passion and possibly even true love. This sweet and tender love story brims with charming romanticism, warm flashes of humor, and a unique cast of characters that include a deaf drag queen who signs--rather than lip-synchs--his routines.


Jean-Michel Portal
Actor
Born In Paris (France)
Currently with the cinema in: Except the respect that I owe you
Biography
Jean-Michel Portal appears for the first time on a screen in 1989, in Tumultes of Bertrand van Effenterre . During following years it cumulates its training of actor (free class of the Course Florent then Conservatoire of 1992 to 1994) with roles for television , Manon Roland, Julie de Carneilhan, Devil with the body ...), the cinema -Albert suffers- from Bruno Nuytten or the theatre.
In 2001, François Dupeyron offers to him, with the Room of the officers , a true second role which is worth to him to be named in Césars.









Marcial Di Fonzo Bo
Marcial Di Fonzo Bo was born in December 1968 with Buenos-Surfaces (Argentina) where it begins its theatrical studies with the Payro Theatre. It settles definitively in France in 1987.

It assists Alfredo Arias and group TSE for several spectacles: Family of artists of Kado Kostzer, staircases of Crowned Heart of Copi, and with the Opera, the gallant Indies of Branch, Tales of Hoffman of Offenbach.

In 1991, it joined the School of the National Theatre of Brittany where it follows, in particular, the courses of Christian Colin, Didier-George Gabily and make the meeting of Claude Régy , with which it plays in 1993 Words of the Wise one then The Terrible voice of Satan of Grégory Motton , Lecclésiaste , in a translation of Henri Meschonnic, and in 1999 Somebody will come from Jon Fosse .

In 1994, it creates, with other alumni of the School of the TNB, the company of the Fireflies with which it puts in scene And it was The Cabaret Fireflies (in residence with the TGP of Saint-Denis) parallel to various workshops carried out in the schools and the prisons.
In 1995, it interprets Richard III of Shakespeare, put in scene of Matthias Langhoff , which is worth Premi dinterpretacio to him criticized teatral of Barcelona and the Price of the revelation of the Trade union of Theatrical Criticism in France.
Cest still with Matthias Langhoff quil plays Island of the Hello  Report/ratio 55 on the penal settlement of Franz Kafka in 1997, General LInspector of Gogol in 1999, which is worth to him the Great price of the National Trade union of Criticism, Borges de Rodrigo Garcia in 2002, Muñequita or swearwords to die with glory dAlejandro Tantanian in 2003, Proletarian LEnfant dOsvaldo Lamborghini in 2004.

It also played in:
The Poisson of deep seas of Mariluise Fleisser, put in scene of Bérangère Bonvoisin in 1999
Merry Apocalypse of Olivier Py , put in scene of the author in 2000
Tamerlan The Large One of Christopher Marlowe, put in scene of Jean-baptiste Sastre in 2001
I believe that you me badly included/understood of Rodrigo Garcia , put in space at monsoon in summer 2001
Prometeo de Rodrigo Garcia , put in scene of François Berreur in 2002
I believe that you me badly included/understood of Rodrigo Garcia , put in scene of the author in 2003
The Corridor of Philippe Minyana , put in scene of the author, 2004
In 1998, It repeats in Rennes, then creates in Barcelona Copi, a portrait , spectacle taken again in French with the National Theatre of Brittany - Rennes, with the Theatre of the City - Paris, then in round, South America in particulier(1999/2000).
As sene setter, it goes up:
Eva Peron de Copi , in Santiago of Chile, 2001
a round to France, Spain and South America will follow
Excess-the machines of Leslie Kaplan , within the framework of the Festival To put in Scene - National Theatre of Brittany, 2002
King David , opera dArthur Honnegger, with will lOrquestra Sinfônica C Estado de São Paulo, 2002
Rdipe daprès texts of Sophocle, Sénèque, Didier-George Gabily and Leslie Kaplan , 2003
Grotta di Trofonio dAntonio Salieri, in will lOpéra of Lausanne, February 2005
The Tower of the Defense of Copi , 2005
To the cinema, it turned in Disappeared of Gilles Bourdos (Festival of Cannes 1998), The man whom I love of Stéphane Giusti, New Skin of Emilie Deleuze, All is well one from goes away of Claude Mourieras, Work of Brigitte Roüan, The role of its life of François Favrat, It is ours of Silgried Alnois