The movie accomplishes its meaning solely at the last scene

Rating: 10/10 (12 February 1999)

The atmosphere, the music, the photography, the cloud of melancholy that Louis Malle inmerses us throughout the entire movie meets at the last scene, in which we come to understand all the dialogues of the movie, all the feelings of the young boy and how a pure friendship can be taken away because of external events that children can't even fully understand. This movie took my breath away and restored my faith in filmmaking