Watch: C.R.A.Z.Y. 2005 123movies, Full Movie Online – Born Christmas Day 1960, Zac Beaulieu is the fourth of five sons of Gervais and Laurianne Beaulieu. Zac feels somewhat disconnected to his brothers, all of whom are different from each other. They include the bookworm Christian who is the eldest, the dumb jock Antoine who is third, and the youngest Yvan. But Zac has the most contempt for his second eldest brother, the shiftless druggie Raymond. To his devout Catholic mother, Zac is her miracle son, both for being born the same day as Jesus Christ (a fact which Zac has always hated), and because a Tupperware-selling mystic once told her that he has the power to heal. Laurianne has always coddled Zac, the two who have a special if unspoken bond. But Zac wants more to please his father, who wants more than anything in his sons that they grow up to be man’s men and not sissies. As Zac goes through his mid-teens to early twenties, Zac isn’t sure if he can live up to the ideals of either his mother or especially his father. A young man with stress-induced asthma, Zac just wants to be what he considers normal, which includes getting rid of his asthma. But more importantly, he wants to get rid of the underlying thoughts that he has and which most going through puberty have, but that for him are becoming more prevalent as he grows older..
Plot: A story of two love affairs. A father’s love for his five sons. And one son’s love for his father, a love so strong it compels him to live a lie. That son is Zac Beaulieu, born on the 25th of December 1960, different from all his brothers, but desperate to fit in. During the next 20 years, life takes Zac on a surprising and unexpected journey that ultimately leads him to accept his true nature and, even more importantly, leads his father to love him for who he really is.
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Growing up in Quebec in the sixties and seventies.
C.R.A.Z.Y. is simply one of the best movies of all time. It encapsulates a time and a place Quebec in the sixties, seventies and eighties and evokes the era with an amazing sound track and jaw-dropping acting. You’re there, in the moment with Gervais, played by Michel Côté who is the macho factory-working Dad.He’s the proud father of five sons but gradually realizes that one of them is a ‘sissy’ and takes this on personally in the jock world he inhabits. The father is a fully rounded character, not cast in the black and white mold so prevalent in other movies of this genre as his puzzled love for his fourth son Zac, played by Marc-André Grondin, is palpable.
The movie takes off in completely unexpected directions. Zac is totally uncomfortable with his sexuality and prays all the time for a ‘cure’. He just wants to be like his brothers and earn the love and acceptance of his father. It is telling that for Gervais, he can accept his druggie son but not the one he suspects of being a ‘fairy’.
There is a huge amount of humour in the movie, one scene in the cathedral with the boys’ choir singing “Sympathy for the Devil” brought a joyful laughter to the audience I was in. It is that kind of movie. Gervais sings Charles Aznevour’s hits with predicable regularity and has a thing for Patsy Cline and her music.
It is the era when everything was changing and insular Quebec, like the rest of the world, was being exposed to the outside world of David Bowie and Jefferson Airplane. Zac embraces all of these changes and struggles with his orientation.
Nothing is ever graphically portrayed, the plot is character driven all the way with incredible little sidelines and sidebars thrown in to add to the concoction. (One scene of a drunken brawl played to a beautiful opera piece comes to mind.)
Danielle Proulx, who portrays the mother, does not have much dialogue (typical of the era) but when she does speak it packs a wallop. She has a wonderful scene with Gervais where they discuss anal sex and a couple of others where her psychic ties to her son Zac are evident but never discussed.
The film just gets under your skin, you are there, in that microcosm of time when the world was changing so drastically and we just didn’t know it. 9 out of 10. Take a bow Jean-Marc Vallée; you have an absolutely amazing talent! Bravo to the entire cast and crew. Movies are a pleasure when they’re this special, and yes, I would see it again.
Exemplary!
This film shines. It exudes something tangibly different in its at times sensual photography, its sinuous, undulating changes of speed and motion. The story is refreshing, in that, although familiar, it is seen from a new, reluctant perspective – for me at any rate. I loved the embattled religiosity, that there was a loose acceptance in that Zac respected the beliefs of his parents, but never hammers home their differences in that respect. In others, though, inevitably there will be conflict, and perhaps particularly at the time of setting. An excellent character study in so many ways – even secondary characters are satisfactorily fleshed out, or have enough about them to warrant sympathy. Well written, well scored, brilliantly acted, and photographed.Must go buy, now!
Original Language fr
Runtime 2 hr 9 min (129 min), 2 hr 7 min (127 min) (Québec) (Canada), 2 hr 7 min (127 min) (Mar del Plata) (Argentina)
Budget 0
Revenue 3692417
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Jean-Marc Vallée
Writer Jean-Marc Vallée, François Boulay
Actors Michel Côté, Marc-André Grondin, Danielle Proulx
Country Canada, Morocco
Awards 38 wins & 8 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby SR (Dolby second generation recording system) (Dolby stereo)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory Cité Lab, Canada (as Citélab)
Film Length 3,478 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm