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In 2002, three French neofascist skinheads went to a public park in Rheims looking for an 'Arab' to attack when they came across Francois Chenu, a young gay man.
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| Filmcritic.comChris BarsantiIt all has a cumulatively lulling effect, if a nightmare could ever be described so. |
| Empire MagazinePatrick PetersThis deeply moving account of a French family's response to a needless tragedy is all the more effective as it eschews the sensationalism of so much modern reportage. |
| Total FilmTom DawsonMeyrou's suitably sombre film leaves you with a sense of enormous respect for a couple refusing to be consumed by hatred, prepared instead to offer their forgiveness. |
| GuardianSteve RoseIt's unlikely to appeal to your mainstream moviegoer, but this French documentary achieves remarkable things with a depressing subject. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenWhile the documentary is well intended, that of parents' willingness to forgive three punks for murdering their son, the direction is uncreative and dull. |
| Slant MagazineEd GonzalezOlivier Meyrou may keep his distance from his subjects, but staying out of their way doesn't mean losing sight of their troubles. |
| New York TimesMatt Zoller SeitzAn example of a film whose style doesn’t merely suit its story but amplifies its meanings. |
| Time OutMark HolcombDirector Olivier Meyrou takes a potently oblique vérité approach, and his remarkable level of access reveals the limitations and equivocal mercies of human understanding with uncommon grace. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA documentary that celebrates a cathartic act of forgiveness and reconciliation by a grieving family whose gay son was brutally murdered. |
| Film Journal InternationalDavid NohAbsorbingly covers the 2002 murder in Reims, France, of 29-year-old homosexual François Chenu. |