First love and the fickleness of adolescence is the theme in this charming drama. The story follows a pretty blonde French youth who is sent with his classmates to an English seaside resort for the summer to study English. It is there that he first meets and "falls in love" with a girl, but when the girl spurns him for an older teenager, his attentions and affections are soon shifted to him. A touching and sensitive tale.
Cinematography
Dreamy seaside light, grainy 16mm intimacy
Acting
Gilles Budin's open, searching face says everything
Director
Hugues Burin des Roziers
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made in 1977, this quietly broke ground depicting adolescent same-sex attraction without sensationalism—rare for the era.
Director Burin des Roziers only made three features; this is his most celebrated, yet nearly impossible to find.
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