"Fun" in French. In France, the country of the winning LGBT movement, a 30-plus swimmer shows contempt for the movement, for which he receives public censure and suspension from competition. Only coaching with an amateur gay team on the water floor can save him. I understand that many people in Russia would say “well done man!”, but there are many other countries on the planet where they have long understood that the main thing is not to evaluate what is good and what is bad, the main thing is to recognize the very fact of the existence of minorities and give them the same rights as the majority.
So the main character, increasingly immersed in this world and getting to know his wards better, understands that they are not aliens, but ordinary people with their own advantages and disadvantages. And in terms of merit, they can be real men, for example, to hide from everyone their terrible physical pain for the sake of play, for the sake of victory, and even sacrifice their lives. At the same time, no one idealizes gays, the team before the important match in full strength spent the night in a gay club (albeit very chic), and everyone enjoyed using prohibited substances.
Why did this movie remind me of The Veselchaks when there was only one travesti on the team? Because it is built on the same principle: at first it seems what the heroes have a bright, cheerful and carefree life, and only then you realize that they have enough problems, and often their very life is under threat. By the way, in “Shrimp” the characters also faced aggressive homophobia, and in seemingly enlightened Germany.
The main character makes an important choice. And it seems to me that he did not lose anything (especially at his age, he could not boast of brilliant athletic achievements), on the contrary, he gained many loyal friends, almost a family. In the film there is a kind of “clubiness”, a kind of gay grotesque, although in Western European countries minorities really feel very relaxed. Exciting to me and the bus journey from France to Croatia, nothing superfluous, a lot of humor and natural beauty.
9 out of 10