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Confused Feelings (1981)
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Original name: La Confusion des sentiments
Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It is the story of a middle age professor who falls deaply in love with a young student in his English literature class. The student is a boarder in the teacher's house. The teacher is married and his wife knows he is mostly attracted to young men. She loves him nevertheless. The whole story revolves around a book the professor will write, dictating to his young pupil... he will only declare his love at the end of the writing ...and, it is too late.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, tragic ending, intense, art house, period drama, nostalgic
Plot:
gay, lgbt, unrequited love, homosexuality, forbidden love, midlife crisis, teacher student relationship, bittersweet, tragic romance, literary, obsession, love, school, homosexual, jealousy, boarding house, gay subtext, gay teenager, intergenerational friendship, gay interest, psychological drama
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Duration: 92 min.
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Style:
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