A cute and heartbreaking take about brewing a homosexual attraction with your classmate in an all-boys catholic school. It managed to pull controversial themes with delicate care.
Les Amities Particulieres is narratively simple film with mellow pacing. It's significantly symbolic as seen when Alexandre was holding a lamb conveying innocence, and the choir music in the background echoing sacredness. The movie captured the sheer thrills and bliss of two boys falling in love inside the den of priests, and the overall commotion happening in these schools.
The appeal of the movie includes the aesthetic punch for being not colorized. It became its original flavor. It unintentionally serves a key element in invoking a sad, closed upbringing of their school, suppressing growing love interests within those walls. It blends pleasantly to the tone, the era, and emotion of the film.
Aside from the monotone color, the film speaks the language of simplicity. Expressed in the story, the dress, dialogues, and even the location. It's so simple that it allows you to feel the moment that gives you a valid feeling of nothingness, of embracing those ordinary details of life that in some occasion, usually means more. Most of the time it displays nothing but walls, augmenting the notion of seclusion and unexplored areas from their school, which not only glimmered us view on these building structures but establishes a story as to how cornered the characters' emotional development that has been barred by their school's religious teaching.
One of the most noticeable piece in the film is the music choice - silence and choir. It embraces the choir in the background to set the mood and dose more nostalgia.
This movie is a must watch for gay film lovers. It underpins important aspects of film-making --- being brave and honest. It's sweet, oftentimes touching, and overall painful to great extent it becomes unforgettable.
Les Amities Particulieres is narratively simple film with mellow pacing. It's significantly symbolic as seen when Alexandre was holding a lamb conveying innocence, and the choir music in the background echoing sacredness. The movie captured the sheer thrills and bliss of two boys falling in love inside the den of priests, and the overall commotion happening in these schools.
The appeal of the movie includes the aesthetic punch for being not colorized. It became its original flavor. It unintentionally serves a key element in invoking a sad, closed upbringing of their school, suppressing growing love interests within those walls. It blends pleasantly to the tone, the era, and emotion of the film.
Aside from the monotone color, the film speaks the language of simplicity. Expressed in the story, the dress, dialogues, and even the location. It's so simple that it allows you to feel the moment that gives you a valid feeling of nothingness, of embracing those ordinary details of life that in some occasion, usually means more. Most of the time it displays nothing but walls, augmenting the notion of seclusion and unexplored areas from their school, which not only glimmered us view on these building structures but establishes a story as to how cornered the characters' emotional development that has been barred by their school's religious teaching.
One of the most noticeable piece in the film is the music choice - silence and choir. It embraces the choir in the background to set the mood and dose more nostalgia.
This movie is a must watch for gay film lovers. It underpins important aspects of film-making --- being brave and honest. It's sweet, oftentimes touching, and overall painful to great extent it becomes unforgettable.