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Trinkets and Dark Thoughts
Trinkets and Dark Thoughts
6.5
/10
272 Ratings

TRINKETS AND DARK THOUGHTS

Fanfreluches et idées noires

Directed by Alexis Langlois
France, 2016
Short, Avant-Garde, LGBTQ+

Synopsis

On a Sunday morning, a group of young revelers enter a large, vacated apartment. Tired drag queens mix with debauched grannies, drunken vagrants and shy virgins over the course of the morning.

Synopsis

On a Sunday morning, a group of young revelers enter a large, vacated apartment. Tired drag queens mix with debauched grannies, drunken vagrants and shy virgins over the course of the morning.

Our take

Detailing a raucous afterparty in a tiny French apartment, this kaleidoscopic short from Alexis Langlois positively sparkles with electric aesthetic energy. With great tunes—and a cartoon cat!—Langlois mounts a vivid communal spectacle that celebrates sexual identity in all in its forms.