Select the correct sentiment of the following review: I found this film the first time when I was searching for some works in witch Stephane Rideau had participate, still in an extraordinary ravishment caused by the astonishingly beautiful "Les roseaux sauvages" (in Portuguese, Juncos Silvestres), by Andre Techine. I was searching for similar movies, in the come of age line. I found then "Presque Rien", a movie where the director Sebastien Lifshitz deliciously amazes us, earning a nomination by the Cannes festival in 2000. The story is about two guys, the kind "boy next door", Mathieu (Jeremie Elkaim) and Cedric (Stephane Rideau), who meet during the summer vacations. In a land far from where he lives, Mathieu spends is days at the beach with his sister. There he meets Cedric, a local, with whom he starts this estival and revealing relationship, much by means of the sensual and seducer personality that Stephane Rideau gives his characters, (in "Les roseaux sauvages", 6 years younger, he still preserves the innocence of the sweet seducer, witch matures here in experience). Exemplar in directing, in the amorous sequence, in the intimate and confessing description that is made about a boys first facing his (still ambiguous) sexuality and great love. The first love, in its terrible progression ecstasy-despair. The best of the film is the best of France: the fervent passion, the hot and excited rationalism, the brownish beauty, the simple and natural acceptance made by the families, although not without surprise and first anger. Still, there is the beach, the luminosity, the lightness e simplicity of summer, the freshness of breeze, the surge's melody, and the expressive eyes of an introverted Elkaim (hesitant, hurt, puzzled, passionate). The sex is not avoided nor exploited, it is treated as it is, with no exhibitionist intention. In virtue of pure talent, this is a work of drama of uncommon quality, without cheap sentimentalism, showing an inevitably real image of two homosexual in their prime youth as any ordinary person, although with a social fear of rejection and shame. It is well worthy being seen, especially by those who adore French movies (although the DVD front cover is very lame, with the two actors in between tens of stars, greased with brilliantine). A movie witch, in my opinion, deserves an 8-9!
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