Tenebrae Lessons

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 whitehot collage of trashy vanity