North Sea Texas

Very standard gay coming-of-age story.

This was very very bad.

Top badass moment? Pim burning his shoe-box of 'mementoes' on the beach, before running off into the sea naked. I prefer to work out my frustrations with life in the mosh-pit, but hey, each to their own. Burning things is a classic way to make a break with the past; irreversible, final and violent. It's always good to make a fresh start, just so you can bugger things up again from scratch. No cats, chainsaws or decapitations.

Awful acting.

Great movie, could use some work on some of the acting.

Echoing, for me, in ways both stylistic and thematic but not all at once, The Long Day Closes, Ma Vie en Rose, Wild Reeds, and Come Undone, this film therefore seems to be wearing a lot of borrowed clothes and often stumbles to dead ends, try as it might to remain "novelistic." Still, it's nice to see a young gay lead character who's not a victim and the film's outdoor shots of the seaside are beautiful.

a delicate coming-of-age story

Not very special