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\n\t\u201cJim Queen\u201d is a film that very much sells itself (or very much does not, depending on the potential viewer) on its one-line elevator pitch. A cartoon about two gay men \u2014 one a vapid, brawny influencer, the other a shy, closeted slip of a thing \u2014 drawn together to fight Heterosis, a conversion virus launched by the conservative right on an unsuspecting queer community: You\u2019re either in or you\u2019re out, so to speak, and if you think that very premise sounds too silly to function, then nothing in French duo Marco Nguyen and Nicolas Athan\u00e9\u2019s dizzy, pastel-drenched satire is going to convince you otherwise. If the idea raises a chuckle, however, then so will much else in \u201cJim Queen\u201d: a short, concentrated barrage of jokes good, bad and both, fired with enough energy and gee to keep a spirit of hilarity afloat throughout.<\/p>\n

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\n\tA rare shot of broad, brash comedy in the Cannes Film Festival \u2014 where it premiered in the Midnight section, providing something of a tonal counterpoint to the usual genre fare there \u2014 \u201cJim Queen\u201d is in some ways a very French affair, shot through with specific satirical nods to local culture and politics (including a frosted-fascist villainess that some may liken to Marine Le Pen, though she\u2019s more directly modelled on Sarkozy-era gay-rights opponent Christine Boutin). But it also translates readily to just about any market where there\u2019s a vocal political movement against queer rights, which is to say more of the world than should be the case. <\/p>\n

\n\tIf the film\u2019s somewhat non-intersectional evocation of the Paris queer community (with a heavy emphasis on the G over the LBTQ) leaves Nguyen and Athan\u00e9\u2019s film feeling slightly out of time in some aspects, that doesn\u2019t affect the general giddy fun of the enterprise \u2014 and won\u2019t stop \u201cJim Queen\u201d from being a staple on the queer fest circuit in the coming year.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt opens on a high, with a musical number so fleet and funny and ebullient, you might wish the whole film had committed to the genre: In militaristic sync as they pound treadmills, down protein shakes and take steroid injections in the buttocks, a gymnasium full of lavishly buff (even 24-packed, to quote a droll visual gag) gay men blankly sing the praises of the body-beautiful lifestyle to a pounding EDM beat. Their alpha leader is Jim (voiced by Alex Ramir\u00e8s), a ginger-bearded Adonis with pecs like rocks and a brain that\u2019s considerably softer, not that his legions of Instagram followers and OnlyFans subscribers are after his thoughts.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong those acolytes is Lucien (J\u00e9r\u00e9my Gillet), a reedy, repressed young virgin who yearns to be part of the gay community but hasn\u2019t the courage to come out to his domineering mother Christine (Elisabeth Wiener), who also just happens to be the country\u2019s very right-wing health minister. Off his bedroom, a literal closet lined with sex toys and Jim posters is visualized in a manner akin to Ariel\u2019s grotto of dry-land keepsakes in \u201cThe Little Mermaid,\u201d with a suitable accompanying ballad of yearning.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhen Jim contracts the sexually transmitted Heterosis virus \u2014 a disease that causes an urge to move to the suburbs and procreate with the opposite sex, and withers the muscles to a dadbod consistency \u2014 and his social media numbers plummet, Lucien is left as his lone remaining admirer. As the gay masses instead flock to Jim\u2019s burly scene rival Pavel, wittily voiced by porn icon Fran\u00e7ois Sagat, Jim and Lucien team up to find out what\u2019s causing Heterosis and what might cure it. It\u2019s a quest that leads them along a neon obstacle course of nightclubs, cruising grounds and chemsex parties, pursued in turn by a rageful Christine, as well as the Gaystapo, a movement to \u201cprotect prostate pleasure\u201d that resorts to violent reverse conversation therapy tactics to counter the virus.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs satire, it\u2019s more loosely irreverent than devastatingly pointed, but alongside the satisfying potshots at the far right, Nguyen and Athan\u00e9\u2019s script also takes welcome aim at body fascism and other forms of discrimination within the gay community. Not that the film devotes too much time to moralizing when there are so many throwaway quips and sight gags to get through, toward a conclusion that advocates vigorous anal sex as a global cure-all. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe humor and storytelling can be likened to \u201cSouth Park\u201d in their senseless, fast-moving escalation toward absurdity, and the broadly cartoonish animation style \u2014 clean lines, popping eyes, flat expanses of color in \u201980s mall-decor shades of pink, lilac and spearmint \u2014 is a running reminder of just how seriously to take the whole enterprise. At one point, Jim, Lucien and their cohorts infiltrate Christine\u2019s heavily guarded estate under cover of a literal Trojan unicorn, exiting via its rectum: another very stupid and very funny visual joke that sums up \u201cJim Queen\u2019s\u201d altogether undisguised, uncompromised approach.<\/p>\n

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\t\tReviewed at Electric Cinema White City, London, May 1, 2026. In Cannes Film Festival (Midnight Screenings). Running time: 85 MIN. (Original title: “Jim Queen and the Quest for Chloroqueer”)<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n

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  • \nProduction:<\/strong>
    \n(Animated \u2014 France) A Bobbypills production in co-production with Umedia. (World sales: Global Constellation, London.) Producers: David Alric, Arthur Delabays. Co-producers: C\u00e9dric Iland, Bastien Sirodot.\t\t\t<\/li>\n
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    \nDirectors: Marco Nguyen, Nicolas Athan\u00e9. Screenplay: Nguyen, Athan\u00e9, Simon Balteaux, Brice Chevillard. Editor: Ivy Buirette. Music: Kirosen.\t\t\t<\/li>\n
  • \nWith:<\/strong>
    \nAlex Ramir\u00e8s, J\u00e9r\u00e9my Gillet, Shirley Souagnon, Elisabeth Wiener, Fran\u00e7ois Sagat, Alex Brik, Harald Marlot, Philippe Katerine.\u00a0(French dialogue) \t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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