What a load of codswallop!

Rating: 3/10 (7 July 2018)

It's nice that Helio has a clearly affectionate and intellectually stimulating family, but that's the only positive thing I can say about this film.
Try changing the roles and having an attractive adult male made welcome in your home and enjoying your hospitality while he proceeds to take advantage of the situation to seduce your confused teenage daughter as she tries to cope with her rampant puberty. That a son cannot get pregnant doesn't make it okay!
That the father is okay with this (turns out he's a closet gay) goes a long way to explaining the current backlash against a PC liberalism in which apparently anything goes and ours is the failing if we cannot comprehend. I'm sorry, but a healthy society has standards to live up to and there are limits to tolerance, such as the good reasons why sex with parents, children, siblings, grandparents, and pets is a no-no, however much you may love them. Because loving someone means putting their interests before your own, not having sex with them!
As a hetero I know how great sex is within a relationship of shared love. However, that does not make me homophobic, as I have a number of friends who happen to be gay, but I find it disturbing the way we are supposed to embrace homosexuality as the new norm - we mustn't let a sexual preference define us as people!
What we should be embracing is LOVE, and that is something that has no gender basis whatsoever. But this film is not about love, it's about sex - which is frequently and grossly treated as a synonym, with the tragic consequences we see all around us. If it was about love, Oliver would not have phoned Helio at the end, on the eve of his wedding - he'd have had more consideration for the boy's feelings. The film merely reinforces the notion that gays and bisexuals are promiscuous and will take sex wherever and whenever they can get it.
If we are going to have homosexuality constantly rammed down our throats by the media, let's see the couples that are faithful to one another and have stable relationships that are based on real love and deserve all the civil rights pertaining to any other stable civil relationship (leave religions out of this - they have their own rules, which should be respected as long as no harm is done). Those are the portrayals that are going to convince the antis to give homosexuals the same respect as they would anybody else, not the ones that portray homosexuals as sexual predators that heteros have to be wary of!
I'm not sure where I found the 3 stars; maybe the nice location and photography, and perhaps the acting can be said to be ok, given the rubbish they had to deal with.