Chloë Grace Moretz as a gay teenager forced to "heal" in re-education camp

Pennsylvania, 1993, Cameron, age sixteen, is interned at God's Promise, a re-education camp. His crime? Having bad with a girl Such centers, founded in the United States by religious, are still present in 38 American states. Each year, they receive more than 70,000 young people to "heal" them.

Report N.Hayter, O.Palomino, L.Crouzillac, R.Torregrossa, E.Fromentin

Destructive centers for young people

Invited to the Champs-Élysées Film festival in Paris, Chloë Grace Moretz, the main actress of "Come as you are", does not consider having demonstrates "bravery" by playing in this film.

What is brave is to manage to leave these camps and get by

Chloë Grace Moretz

The film was made from testimonies of "survivors", the names of people who come out of these centers. Their stays confront them with self-denigration, mutilation, suicide and push them to hide who they are.

François Durpaire, specialist in the United States, sees in the film the evolution of these conversion therapies, which go from "medical rehabilitation […] to psychiatric, psychological and much more pernicious re-education"

The director, Desiree Akhavan, is a militant for the homobadual cause. To embody Cameron she wanted "a woman who knows herself well, strong, sporty, confident, who has the clbad". She was delighted that Chloë Grace Moretz appreciated the script and agreed to play the role of the young homobadual.

"Come as you are" is also the title of one of the most famous songs of the band Nirvana, taken from the album "Nevermind" in 1992, at the time when the action of the film takes place.