The gerontophiliac protagonist of the film is a handsome, pouty, 18-year-old Montreal kid named Lake (Pier-Gabriel Lajoie), who's into skateboarding and drawing and, as he gradually discovers, really old guys. Gerontophilia is conventionally well-made, avoids onscreen sex and has the kind of saucy sentimentality that made a hit out of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – though before you drop your grandfolk at the multiplex, you might check on their feelings about wrinkle fetishists. This is the most mainstream work yet from the Toronto writer and 'queercore' director of art-porn films, and the indie zombie feature, Otto, or Up with Dead People. Bruce La Bruce's new film, Gerontophilia, is a tender, slender movie about same-sex intergenerational love that is shocking only in being so unshocking.
