In the underrated queer Quebecois film ‘C.R.A.Z.Y.’ coming-of-age is a family affair

Image Credit: ‘C.R.A.Z.Y.,’ Samuel Goldwyn Films

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.”

This weeks marks the twentieth anniversary of the Quebecois coming-of-age film C.R.A.Z.Y., one of the earliest works by director Jean Marc Vallée, so this week we’ll do a deep dive into this idiosyncratic comedy that painted growing up in suburban Canada as an angst-filled, masculinity-induced, queer-curious fantasia scored by some of the most iconic bands of the ’70s and ’80s.

Queer coming-of-age stories tend to follow a very traditional (and, at this point, expected) formula. They usually revolve around a young person—probably between the ages of 10 and 15—who doesn’t quite fit in with their environment. They may be outsiders to their own family, have few friends at school,

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