Stupid Boy () is a 2004 Swiss film directed by Lionel Baier.Wesley Morris, "Search for life's meaning defines 'Garçon'". Boston Globe, February 24, 2006. The film addresses the life of the gay community in the canton of Vaud.
Plot 20-year-old Loic works by day in a chocolate factory, and by night cruises the internet for sex with older men. His life is a series of pointless anonymous sexual encounters until he meets one man who appears to be interested in him for himself, and not just his body.
Loic's journey to self-awareness is told through a series of episodic events, such as the suicide of his best friend, his growing infatuation with a local team's soccer star, a car accident and subsequent hospitalisation which uncomfortably reunites him with his parents. At the end of the film he realizes that he can be his own person and he recites a list of things he will never do in order to fit in and belong.
Cast Pierre Chatagny as Loïc Natacha Koutchoumov as Marie Rui Pedro Alves as Rui Lionel Baier as Lionel
Reception A review for Abus de Ciné found the film "appalling".
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