One review on 06 Jan 2024

Belgium 2022

Running time: 104 mins

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Director : Lukas Dhont 

Setting: Belgium
Original language: French, Dutch
Summary: Friendship between two 12yo boys drifts apart with tragic consequences when they go up to a new school


Colour: Colour


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First Seen: Sat 6th Jan 2024
Catalogued: 7th Jan 2024

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by rogerco on Sat 6th Jan 2024 Streamed proj @ home (Subtitled)

Good but not satisfying

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Good, but not as good as the commercial reviews make out. There doesn't seem to be sufficient motivation for Remini's suicide which makes the whole story weaker and less believable - even if it was based on a real childhood event of the director.

There's a lot of meta-tension as it navigates between various potential storylines - will their friendship develop into a full-lown ghomo love affair, will they drifting apart develop into toxic hate, will Remini's mother develop a relationship with her son's best friend - both before and after his death - mercifully none of these obvious things happen, but neither does evenetual redemption and reconcillation.  The death is simply not belivable.