Way Too Long

Rating: 8/10 (14 March 2018)

A 90-minute movie packed into 132 minutes, this one goes on and on and on with nothing happening, supposedly building to the "coming of age" moment between the 17-year-old and the "older" man hired by daddy as a research assistant.
The idyllic Italian summer has the guys playing cat and mouse about the house while the intellectual parents look the other way. There's lots of talk, lots of bicycle rides into town, lots more talk, shots of the apricot trees, and then some more talk.
While the acting is good, the story drags. And it's odd that for a gay-themes movie, the only actual sex depicted is between the kid and a girl. Other than grabbing and wrestling, you never see any actual sex between the guys. I don't recall the word "gay" even being spoken.
Watched it once; I'll never watch it again.