Beyond Hatred
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Directed by | |
Written by | Olivier Meyrou |
Produced by | Christophe Girard |
Cinematography | |
Edited by | |
Music by | François-Eudes Chanfrault |
Distributed by | Peccadillo Pictures (UK) |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Beyond Hatred (French: Au-delà de la haine) is a 2005 French documentary film written and directed by .
The documentary tells the story of a French couple seeking justice and feeling acceptance after the homophobic murder of their gay son, 29-year-old Francois Chenu. He was murdered by three white power skinheads in 2002, who beat him severely in the face and threw him into a pond.[1][2][3][4] The attackers were arrested one month after the incident, and Meyrou read about the case on the front page of Le Monde.[4] He had been wanting to make a film about homophobia for some time, and decided that the Chenu case was very emblematic.
The film's French television premiere was on 19 June 2005; distributed the film's French theatrical release the following year. It was shown at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival, the , and the 2007 London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. It had a limited theatrical release in the United States on 15 June 2007, distributed by First Run Features.
Rotten Tomatoes gave Beyond Hatred a "fresh" rating of 89% based on 18 reviews.[5] Metacritic gave it a "generally favorable" rating of 65% based on five reviews.[6] The documentary won the Teddy Award for Best Documentary at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival.[7]
Notes[]
- ^ 56th Berlin Film Festival-Part 3 The work of theatre director Robert Wilson and other documentary films
- ^ NOW Magazine - Movies in Toronto, NOVEMBER 23 - 29, 2006 Archived September 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ One World 2007 Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Phillips, Richard (2006-08-03). "An interview with Olivier Meyrou, director of Beyond Hatred". World Socialist Website. Retrieved 2007-08-25.
- ^ "Beyond Hatred". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on July 13, 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-25.
- ^ "Beyond Hatred (2007)". Metacritic. Retrieved 2007-08-25.
- ^ Warbler, Daniel (2 June 2014). "THE OUT TAKE: 10 FANTASTIC TEDDY AWARD-WINNING LGBT FILMS TO WATCH RIGHT NOW". mtv.com. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
External links[]
- 2005 films
- French-language films
- French documentary films
- French LGBT-related films
- 2005 documentary films
- Documentary films about violence against LGBT people
- French films
- Violence against gay men
- Works about white nationalism
- 2005 directorial debut films
- 2005 LGBT-related films