Released in November 2018, the film Jonas directed by Christophe Charrier is finally available on Netflix. Mixing love story, self-discovery, lies and drama, this feature film has the merit of keeping its exhilarating plot until the end. Jonas has even proven himself, since he was rewarded at the fiction festival with the awards "Best Film", "Best Director" and "Best Music". Addressing topics that every teenager has faced, Christophe Charrier portrays a person lost and consumed by a trauma that seems to leave him no respite.
A very gripping mystery
From the beginning of the film, the plot points the tip of its nose. Jonas, 15, is plagued by anxieties that seem to be related to a traumatic and at least recent event. Christophe Charrier juggles here with the past and the present. He presents us in turn the Jonah of 15 years before this mysterious event, and the Jonah of 30 years still lost. Jonah paints a picture where the soft colors of naivety and youth collide with the cold, dark colors of lies and fear. The budding love story between Jonas and Nathan, a new student at the college, has everything on its side… 
Christophe Charrier confronts us here with the daily life of 3rd grade students, as exhilarating and chaotic as it is. Between first emotions in love, harassment, self-discovery, doubt, emancipation from the family domain and rebellion, Jonas is a perfect patchwork leading to a masterful conclusion. By staging a homosexual couple, Christophe Charrier points the finger at the homophobia and violence witnessed by French schools. Mockery, blackmail, humiliation, insults… Many factors that still today lead several hundred young people to depression and even worse, suicide. Jonas is a film that attempts to raise awareness of the violence of words and actions towards the younger generations.
15 years later
Through the daily life of Jonas years after the fact, we find ourselves facing a young man lost and brawler, who seems to be a regular at the police stations. This brutal and borderline animal portrait contrasts with the adolescent Jonah. Fragile and shy, the 15-year-old Jonas does not dare to impose himself and think outside the box. Going from victim to predator, the character played by Félix Maritaud soon shows his true nature through his job as a caregiver. The closeness he maintains with his patients touches the heart and stirs up sympathy for the violent man he seemed to have become. 
His obsession with a hitherto unknown young man takes on an increasingly important place throughout the film. This adds a touch of mystery to the plot lurking around his childhood trauma. The director of Jonah denounces here the difficulty of finding one's place in the world as a young adult, but also depicts the obstacles faced by those whose chains of their old ghosts have not yet been broken. Like a cannonball, lies and fear slow down and drag the main character down, preventing him from living his own life. Helpless in the face of the events that punctuate his life, Jonah finds himself struck by fate. Carried to the end of the film, the plot is total. Once unveiled, it could be described as moral, or even a warning. It warns us and shocks us by its simplicity. Jonas is an effective film, mixing love story and drama. Denunciator while remaining light, the work has the merit of making suspicious when it comes to strangers and social networks… https://www.facebook.com/netflixfrance/videos/623450995154978/
