Sadly Over-hyped

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

In a village in the Southwest of France, 1962. Maite and Francois are 18 years old. They are friends, not lovers. In Francois's classroom, there are Serge, whose brother has just married to try to escape from the war in Algeria, and Henri, a pied-noir (Algerian-born Frenchman).This is a great story about being a French teenager in the 1960s, but suffers from an awful transfer, with even blurry credits. Rarely do you see VHS transferred to DVD on professional discs, but that is what it looks like they did. Someone call Criterion! This is clearly deserving of an upgrade.Also, I really liked the use of 1960s American music. Apparently France in the 1960s did not have their own popular music.

This movie is painful for gay people.This is a coming of age movie set about 1962 near Toulouse. The Algerian war is almost over.It takes place at a high school although some of the students are a bit older (21).The main character Francois is gay. He has a female friend (fag hag) Maite who is a communist (looks like a cross between Greta Van Sustren and Frieda= ugly). Francois falls in love with first Serge and then Henri...both straight. Serge is a macho peasant and Henri an upper class right wing pied noir (from Algeria).This movie has too much PC content (my all time greatest annoyance). The all around good communists Maite and her mother (would they be bad?) represent the moral high ground. The teacher helping the anti Arab Henri has an Arabic wife. Typical left wing homage you see in almost all French movies and Hollywood for that matter.This sort of political intrusion would be tolerable if the gay thing had a happy ending it doesn't and is two hours of reliving all the dead ends gay people encounter when young. The shoe salesman is a good example. It isn't much fun.There are so many better gay films. Watch the Israeli movie Eyes Wide Open or The Country Teacher instead. This one is mostly boring, the 4 main actors look too old for the role. The gay one (in one small saving grace) is the the best looking and most likable, the girl is positively homely.I long for the day when there are gay characters who beat the system and don't humiliate themselves---gay James Bonds. DO NOT RECOMMEND

I am still asking myself as to how and why I ended up getting this movie from Netflix. There is nothing to see for an intelligent viewer. Stupid idiotic teenagers wander aimlessly in the French country side with one kid clutching his radio for good part of the movie. They are all effete looking and talk gibberish (atleast from what I read in the sub-titles.) The movie is a bore and lacks any kind of continuity that is sign of a good film maker. The class room scene is the most boring piece of movie I ever seen. These French Films are overrated by these French Media Morons here to reffered as morons for brevity, who probably have never seen non French films since they are narcissistic and don't know or don't care there is life outside France or outside of French films. Quite a bunch of useful and strange idiots. To the credit of this movie..the cinematography is breathtaking specially the canal scene and the greenery of the countryside.

The ending sums up the entire movie. Exiting the Garden of Eden, these 3 strong, yet weak teenagers find themselves lost among the world. Sexually, they have somewhat of a clue what they want and don't like, but by the end of the movie, we are left with something of a complex conclusion. All three have an idea who they are. Even though they are still lost with no one to talk to, they find there way out of the Garden of Eden and back to the World where they belong. The movie ends with hope.