It won a Silver Bear in Berlin for “outstanding artistic contribution,” whatever that means, so somebody must have considered the bizarre curiosity Disco Boy worth sinking some money into for an understandably limited New York run. They were wrong. I seriously doubt if more than ten people will bother to check this one out, but since it stars Germany’s Franz Rogowski, hot on the heels of inexplicably and undeservedly winning the 2023 Best Actor award from the New York Film Critics Circle for an obscurity called Passages, I guess it’s worth mentioning.

DISCO BOY ★ (1/4 stars)
Directed by: Giacomo Abbruzzese
Written by: Giacomo Abbruzzese, Cristèle Alves Meira, Géraldine Keiflin
Starring: Franz Rogowski, Laetitia Ky, Moor Ndiaye
Running time: 92 mins.

In Passages, he played a “lost” bisexual loner who cannot commit to a relationship with a partner from either sex. In the genre-defying Disco Boy, he tries to find a new identity as a member of the French Foreign Legion but fails. In the end, he........

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