Like the hippies of yesteryear, several couples set up their own community in the heart of the Cévennes. Despite the total freedom of this lifestyle, teenager Anya becomes increasingly withdrawn and ultimately goes to live deep in the woods, much to the consternation of her family and the concern of the local population.

The film is set amidst a war in the French countryside between farmers and members of a gentlemen’s hunting club, sparked by wild boars ravaging local crops, which leads to a murder. A police officer is pushed to the brink of insanity as he leads the investigation a year later.

Moving. Demanding. Unclassifiable. Rare. These are the words given to the gay film that Director Géraud Champreux is invited to present in a sleepy seaside town, but those same words also describe this irresistibly funny and sometimes absurdist comedy. Géraud is drawn into the lives of the locals including the handsome young projectionist obsessed with him, the snotty hotel desk girl hoping to become an actress and the slightly neurotic theater owner embroiled in a heated lesbian affair of her own. My Life With James Dean is above all charming and unique.