Behind-the-scenes production of Beihai, Texas

The Belgian film "Dezhou Beihai" won the 20 1 1 Montreal Film Festival, second only to the Grand Prize, Jury Award and Film Critics Fabisi Award. The film is set in a seaside town in Belgium in the 1960s and 1970s, and tells the story of an introverted boy who falls in love with a gangster next door. Texas is the name of the bar that the boy's mother often goes to.

The film director Bavo Defurne is a homosexual. His short films have won many international awards. He has also worked as a set designer for directors such as Peter Greenaway, and he is also a photographer. His short films "Spring", "Sage" and "Campfire" all show the ambiguity, longing and pain of young people in the process of growing up. They are visually called "Pierre et Gilles", which is beyond the stubbornness and sweetness of the secular.

Beihai, Texas is his first novel, which is adapted from Andre Soli's novel This is Eternity. Initiation movies often end with the protagonist finding his own identity, but this is not the theme of this movie, it is about love, and it is about finding happiness. Many gay movies are not inspiring to gay people. As touching as Brokeback Mountain, but not in a good way. I hope to make a movie about the life they can get, a happy movie. "

Beihai, Texas is one of the most acclaimed films at this year's Montreal Film Festival, and even serious critics of Variety seem to be melted by it, "showing the ecstasy of first love and the heartache of loss in detail and elegance". Next, the film will appear in more gay film festivals. "I hope heterosexuals can enjoy my movies", "just like the gay audience in Titanic", Devin said, "but that's not realistic".