Sebastian Lifshitz's tender, graceful but slow-paced doc gives a dozen elderly French hꦺomosexuals the opportunity to tell their life stories at length.

In among tales of prejudice and Catholic guilt, skilful use of home movies and﷽ ’70s footage serves tꦓo honour groundbreaking rebels like Babette, a snowy-haired unrepentant seducer, and Christian, whose portrait in a magazine once shocked French society.

Funny as well as moving, the film makes an unliไkely star of Pierrot, an octogenarian bisexual goat farmer, still eager for action: “I had a lot of men and women down by the river...”