7 Queer Films That Should Have Been Nominated For An Oscar This Year

From: NewNowNext

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Best Actors

Geoffrey Couët 

and

François Nambot

in

“Theo and Hugo”

Directors Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau (The Adventures of Felix) have earned critical accolades for this tight, slice of gay life about one evening shared between two gay men, but its the actors themselves who do the heavy lifting.

As the titular characters Couët and Nambot have a lengthy and explicit sex scene that dominates the film’s start, but also carry the emotional weight when an HIV scare sends them to the hospital for testing and through the city for soul-searching.

Comparisons with Andrew Haigh’s Weekend are obvious, but Theo and Hugo has its own unique energy, thanks to the lead’s chemistry, Ducastel and Martineau’s fearlessness and the beautiful Parisian setting.