Entre chiens et loups

Jean-Gabriel Périot has developed a very interesting film career since 2000, when he made "Gay?", a self-assertion short about his own sexual orientation that was the first time I saw one of his works. Since then -while still making reflections on homosexual life and "weapons" as "Before I Was Sad" (2002) and "Rain" (2004)-, he has made a series of striking experimental films on human condition, war, laborers, medicine, death, survival, ecology, evolution, and even a reflection of the art of filmmaking ("Just UNDO It", from 2005), as the multi-awarded "Nijuman no borei" (2007) and "Eût-elle été criminelle" (2007), none of which is done in the usual way these themes are treated. With "Between Dogs and Wolves", he has made a good exercise of fiction, after delivering his experimental shorts, which we hope he will not stop making. A good, strange little drama (it runs 30 minutes) about a handsome young man who works delivering pizzas during the night and "searches" for a new job during the day. At the same time though, it seems as if he wanted to be discovered for a different role in life. He is definitely hiding something, but thankfully it is not obviously exposed to the audience, and it comes as a surprise (although what he is "hiding" is ambiguous). If you have the chance to see a film by Jean-Gabriel Périot, don't lose the opportunity.