Winner of th𓄧e Queer Palm at last year’s Cannes, Olive𒆙r Hermanus’explicit study of obsession and repression in middle-class South Africa loses much of its power in understatement.

Closeted, self-loathing businessman François (Deon Lo🗹tz) bottles up his homosexuality until he crosses paths with handsome young family friend Christian (Charlie Keegan) and his painfully knotted emotions sta🤡rt to unravel.

Lotz' tortured expression carries the film, silently falling apart in an artful series of lingering pans andℱ excruciating static shots.

Alas, the film♈’s intense subt💖lety ends up pulling too many punches.