The Best Way to Walk

Starring:Patrick Dewaere, Patrick Bouchitey, Christine Pascal, Claude PiÃ©plu, Marc Chapiteau, Michel Blanc, Michel Such, Frank D'Ascanio, Nathan Miller
Director: Claude Miller
Studio: Fox Lorber
Product Type: DVD

Description

DVD 5.1 sound, 1.66:1 Aspect Ratio. Directed by Claude Miller: A sports director and a crossdressing music teacher struggle to come to terms with their sexual identities while working at a summer camp for boys.

Customer Reviews:

Camp Fun.......2006-07-24

Philippe (a doe-eyed, pouty Patrick Bouchitey) is the music/theater counselor in his father's summer camp. He's sensitive, bookish, intelligent, good looking maybe even a bit of a prig: in high school, the type of guy usually teased by the football team.
Marc (a charismatic Patrick Dewaere) is the football/sport coach at the camp who takes it upon himself to humiliate, tease, and even flirt with Philippe whenever he has the opportunity. Marc's motivation is never made completely clear but the situation between he and Phillipe can arguably be attributed to Marc's closeted homosexuality: you "hate" what you really "love" and so on. On the other hand, a case can be made for Marc being simply a bully and a jerk: maybe his father beat him or should have. The genius of the story is that you never know for sure.
Director Claude Miller ("Alias Betty") structures this simple, straightforward story with an acute eye towards spicing up even the smallest detail with the heady aroma of insinuation and subtext. Though we pretty much know where this story is going we are more than happy to ride it out with Miller and his excellent actors.
The tension, both sexual and psychological, between Phillipe and Marc is physically palpable: the screen crackles when these two go at each other and the denouement of this film is wise, thoughtful as well as profoundly exhilarating.

Dear Claude Miller.......2005-10-23

Dear Claude Miller,
We love you very very much. You helped us to see 'the dark side of the world'. Please do not leave us! Please try to tell us another 'dark' stories.

"The best way to walk is our way to walk.".......2005-04-09

The French film "The Best Way to Walk" is set in a summer camp for boys. Philippe (Patrick Bouchitey) is the gentle, subdued theatre counselor whose father runs the camp. Philippe doesn't really mingle well with the other male counselors, and he doesn't enjoy their macho male bonhomie. Clashes between Philippe and the other counselors are evident very quickly, and the aggressive PE instructor, Marc (Patrick Dewaere) acts as a ringleader encouraging the other counselors in coarse behaviour. One night, Marc barges into Philippe's room and discovers Philippe dressed as a woman. The relationship between Marc and Philippe takes an ugly turn. There's an implied threat and violence in Marc's interactions with Philippe. Philippe, at first, struggles to establish some sort of agreement of silence from Marc, but as Marc's taunts grow more obvious, Philippe tries to avoid any confrontations.

"The Best Way to Walk" is a subtle film with excellent performances from the cast. Marc and Philippe are perfect foils for one another. Marc is brash, and confident, and Philippe tries to gain confidence and respectability by producing his girlfriend, Chantal (Christine Pascal). Just as Philippe comforts a puny boy who is being picked on by another, more aggressive child, we can see that Philippe was also the sort of little boy who suffered bouts of bullying. And this bullying continues into the adult macho atmosphere of the social interactions that take place between the camp counselors. In the fishbowl of the summer camp, Marc harasses Philippe even using his students to dominate situations at several points, and the film concentrates on exactly how Marc reacts to Philippe's 'secret' more than anything else. Marc, Philippe, and Chantal all have problems with their sexuality--Marc is threatened and unsettled by Philippe, but Chantal and Marc are both obviously together because their relationship is unthreatening. When another counselor is pilloried for moral transgressions, the situation comes to a head. This excellent film deserves more recognition than it currently receives, and it remains remarkably undated--especially when one considers that the film was made in the mid-70s. Fans of French cinema will enjoy this film made a few years prior to Patrick Deweare's suicide in 1982. "The Best Way To Walk" is in French with English subtitles--displacedhuman

"Breathtaking" - Los Angeles Times.......2004-07-02

THE BEST WAY

"Superb! The touch of a master craftsman!" Linda Lewis, Seattle
Post Intelligencer
"Breathtaking" - Los Angeles Times
Nominated for six French Academy Awards

Patrick Dewaere gives a powerful performance in THE BEST WAY as
the handsome, macho athletic coach at a boys summer camp.
Confused by his sexual attraction towards Philippe, an effeminate
drama instructor, he begins a subtle campaign of psychological
and physical intimidation that leads to a catastrophic turn of
events.

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