Close
Russian title: Близко
Original title: Close
Youth drama – Belgium, Netherlands, France
Production year: 2021
Movie length: 105 minutes
Director: Lukas Dhont
Writer: Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens
Cinematograph: Frank van den Eeden
Music: Valentin Hadjadj
Movie description:
Playing and imagining the shape of the world, running as if through fields and forests, cutting through small countryside roads on bicycles, fighting for the fun of it, like mischievous puppies, staying at the one another’s houses, being treated like a second son by their respective families: at 13 years of age, Léo and Rémi are inseparable friends, their hearts beating as one in their wholly innocent love, even if feelings which don’t need explaining are clearly a feature, too. But this innocence in full summer bloom is shattered as soon as the new school year starts. The natural and instinctive physical closeness between the two boys (one’s head on the other’s shoulder or one of them acting as a cushion for the other who’s stretched out on the grass) is immediately picked up on in school (are you two together? You seem close. It shows. Are you a couple? Maybe you just don’t realise it yet), if not stigmatised (queer) in the commotion and hustle and bustle of the playground. Troubled by what other people might think, sensitive Léo gradually distances himself from Rémi, cosying up with the more virile boys and their football chat, and even taking up ice hockey, hidden behind the bars of his helmet. But Léo secretly feels guilty for this betrayal, which has a growing impact on Rémi ...
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