You belong to me : A review

This was a movie S and I opted for rather offhandedly to watch over the internet after we were done with dinner and "The Informers". "The Informers" had been vaguely dissatisfying primarily because of the editing; but that's another story.

So we chose "You belong to me", or rather S chose it after I read the blurb on it that mentioned a vaguely gay plotline, and I am very very happy he did.

This was a very well made, very understated and very well enacted movie. The movie starts with an architect named Jeffrey (Daniel Sauli) sort of stalking his disinterested one-afternoon-stand Rene (Julien Lucas -- very rakish) and moving into the same apartment complex as Rene. And right about the time when I was about to say "...not another gay fatal attraction movie plzzz..." the plot swerved in a completely different direction and evolved into a very urbane gothic suspense thriller.

The movie is worth at least one watch simply because it blends the gay subplot into the background without even a single moments worth of melodrama.

Coco Chanel apparently had said once " Before you leave the house, take one thing off your self." Writer-director Sam Zalutsky may have used that philosophy to trim off any extra drama from the movie, and the result is a slick, gripping thriller.