C.R.A.Z.Y.: A Queer Film Classic

he counterpoint to Laurianne’s complicity with Zac is Gervais’ utter panic when he catches eight-year-old Zac en flagrant délit, in his mother’s clothes. As Zac retrospectively explains, it was the moment he unintentionally “declared war” on his father. Zac adores Gervais, and the withdrawal of his father’s affection is to become his greatest sorrow. As Marc-André Grondin, who plays the teenage Zac, has said, “the film’s starting point is a boy seeking his father’s love” (Dumais 2005)