The film’s characters are simultaneously horny and melancholic. They seem to want plenty of sex but also love.
Very few films accept the contradicting velocities of gay desire the way Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo does.
This feisty sex comedy of errors doesn’t break any ground, but it still has its charms.
The filmmakers’ gentle humanism allows the film to moderately rise above its somewhat rote tale of Riviera bed-hopping.