Product Details

• Actors: Roy Dupuis, Jacques Godin, Jean-François Pichette, Gaston Lepage, Hugo Dubé
• Directors: Jean Beaudin
• Writers: René-Daniel Dubois
• Producers: Doris Girard, Louise Gendron, Léon G. Arcand
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Subtitles: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Fox Lorber
• VHS Release Date: September 1, 1998
• Run Time: 85 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1572521414
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #224,594 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is an emotional film!, March 19, 2001

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kim "kaj6" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Being at Home With Claude [VHS] (VHS Tape)

It is dark and sordid but really could not be portrayed fittingly in any other way. The acting is absolutely phenomenal. Roy Dupuis not only takes the show but forcefully steals it so that you begin to wonder if he isn't the only actor in the movie. The cinematography is also well done with flashbacks and subtle switching between color and black & white. It was a little difficult to follow at first because it is English sub-titled and the actors are speaking extremely fast. The passion however, is unmistakable and I truly felt that this was an actual event happening before my eyes as opposed to a film script. I was pulled into the emotional contradiction and inner wrestling that the character Yves was feeling and could almost taste the pain. If this is Roy Dupuis' first movie debut, we are in for a wild, wild ride! This actor obviously loves his art.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a mind-blowing trip, August 25, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Being at Home With Claude [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Intense, with horror and beauty so intertwined it's hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. Not for the faint of heart or for those who are turned off by gays. But it is a wonderful story, well-acted (Dupuis turns in a magnificent performance) and filled with suspense that is relieved only at the end -- it keeps your attention riveted. It certainly made me wish my French were good enough to follow the dialogue, which is swift and complex. The subtitles follow reasonably well, so you do get the gist of the experience. Well worth the price, as it is the sort of movie one watches more than once, finding new elements of meaning each time it is viewed.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a must see film, September 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Being at Home With Claude [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Roy Dupuis gives a heart felt proformance as Yves a smart and sexy hustler who wasn't looking for what he found when he met Claude. This is a film about what we are all searching for and what most of us never really find, because when we have it most of the time we don't know what to do with it. Yves finds it, and it terrified him, made him feel lost and confused. And he took that feeling of desperation out on the only person who could really understand. Words can't discribe this film in the way it should be discribed, so I suggest you buy this film, sit back, be perpared to have your heart broken and your mind expanded. Once you see it I promise you will never be the same.