“The Nineties had a pretty bad start”, this is how Vincent Dieutre introduces us to the shadows of his personal universe in those years going through Utrecht, Naples and Rome. In these three cities and two love affairs guide a homosexual man on his nightly search for lost beauty. In a cross between a diary and a baroque play the film reconstructs the fragments of a fateful journey against a Caravaggio backdrop. Painting, sensuality, losing oneself in a cityscape: the Leçons de ténèbres form an obscure fresco, a white-hot collage of trashy vanity.
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Andrzej Burzynski
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Hubert Geiger
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Emmanuel Giraud
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Vincent Dieutre
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Jaurès
Catherine Hannoun
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Leo Bersani
Antonino Iuorio
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Diabolik
Opera
Vincent Dieutre Director
First release January 17, 2001 · Produced in France, Belgium · Production Les Films de la Croisade
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Carré Noir
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Les Films de la Croisade
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France · Belgium
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Original title
Leçons de ténèbres
Original language
French
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French
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France · January 17, 2001
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