A recent French comedy in the style of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. It concerns a gay water polo team who are training up for the Gay Games in Croatia and are allocated a new trainer by the Swimming authorities. Matthias(Nicolás Gob)
is a veteran champion swimmer who makes a homophobic comment and as a sort of punishment is given this job. The team is, predictably, a motley crew
largely more interested in the social side but Matthias manages to work some miracles
and they head off to Croatia. The second part of the film is the Priscilla road movie part,
not too long thankfully as it is fairly easy to imagine what will happen.
The third part in Croatia blends scenes of the matches,
the partying at a sort of enormous bathhouse and the continuing stories and dramas of the group, especially that of the leader Jean (Alban Lenoir).
As usual, the film ends up being somewhat sweet and sour but is infused with loads of good humour, some appropriate messages and is slickly made.
Cedric Le Gallo and Maxime Govane are a good duo in direction and screenplay.
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