Oh Man Is This Gay

Rating: 7/10 (15 December 2017)

Is it really a good time to award this movie anything, considering the Kevin Spacey allegations? Do you really want the firestorm to return to entertainment, Golden Globes.
If you can set aside the homosexual nature of this movie, it is a really effective story of crushes and first love. Though plodding and a bit of a slog, the mood is what you go for. Such as the late afternoon dinners. Swimming in the lake. Listening to rain. This has that coming-of-age sense that "Man In The Moon" (the one with Reese Witherspoon). It's heartbreaking in terms of how life does move on even after devastating emotions (well, at that age anyway). And the beauty of simple life in Europe in the 1980's as a teen must've been this charming. Again, this is going to be trashed by Middle America, with good reason. But it is a great film about capturing a time and feel of being overwhelmed with love.