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What We Have
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What We Have is is the tale of Maurice, a prisoner of his past who is unable to connect with the people in his new Northern Canadian small town, a community that is only too ready to welcome this European misfit into their arms.
Cast & crew
Directed by Maxime Desmons
Roberta Maxwell
Jean-Michel Le Gal
Alex Ozerov-Meyer
Marie-Ève Perron
Johnathan Sousa
Atticus Mitchell
Paul Fauteux
Pamela Sinha
Trevor HayesImages · 4
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CinemaSerfApr 3, 2022
Frenchman Maxime Desmons ("Maurice") relocates to a remote Canadian community where he picks up his acting career. The wages are poor, so he tries to supplement them by teaching folks French. That's where he alights on keen, but shy, swimmer "Allan" (Alex Ozerov). Try as they both might, they struggle to fit in with their respective peers, but they do gradually begin to bond together. The former an outwardly gay man, the latter still preparing for his own journey into manhood… Read more
. When "Maxime" intervenes during an incident with a bully, the younger man starts to believe that the two could have a future. This is when, using flashbacks and good old community gossip, that we discover just why the actor is now all but hiding in this provincial backwater. Desmons is pretty convincing here, as is Ozerov, but I found the writing a bit pedestrian and there is something distinctly unsatisfactory about the conclusion. The production is good though, the story evolves at a reasonable pace and it does present us with an interesting observation of behaviour that when looked on retrospectively, makes you wonder why people make some of the most basic of human errors when the heart and hormones take over.
kinrich30Aug 30, 2026
This was a rather disappointing movie. It follows a gay actor from France who moves to Canada, but while he is the star of the movie, he's creepy and weird and not a likeable character at all. To make extra money he tutors a boy in French, but soon learns the boy is also gay. Things spin out of control when he physically attacks the bully who was picking on his student. It was a slower movie that flipped between English and French and had no real ending, nothing was resolved… Read more
at all.