What a waste of my time!!!

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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.

So this is what being 17 feels like?! This is a slow-moving, mundane yet beautiful, subtle drama that captures the bleak lives of two teenage boys, both living in different family backgrounds. Accompanied by constant shivering snowfalls, they both end up feeling 'something' between them.This is a simple come-of-age story that doesn't show us usual intensity of gay relationships or obvious flow of surging passion (that concludes with I-love-you or I-like-you confessions). On the contrary it is more about wavering confusion and love-hate tension that grows between two adolescent boys studying in the same institute.What makes it different from other gay films of similar themes is its ability to grip your attention and tease you with slightly puerile curiosity about: "will they come together?" There are several unique elements that work as essentials of this story: sense of solitude, fierce jealousy, suppressed infatuation, silent expectations, teenage ego, and of course, the urgent hatred that often emerges from helpless, pent-up affection.I especially loved the natural, engaging and poised performances of two young actors who seemed to know what they were supposed to do on screen - they appeared quite involved and effortless. Exhilarating indeed!

A well-developed story line with great and realistic character development. The writers obviously believed in these people, and the actors were given the chance to flesh them out for sure.The people are interesting, (and handsome,) the scenery is great and diverse. The changing seasons really added to the overall feel of living with these people in their real lives. Nothing is forced, the director takes his time to allow you to grow with these people, to really understand who they are.If you want to see a great gay-themed movie that steps outside the box, this will be the one to watch.

I confess I'm a big drama addict, I can't take seriously comedies or any other genre for that matter. There is always a lot of drama in LGBT themed movies, specially if their main subject is first love and coming of age. But it seems there is a need for directors that treat this topic to make the characters that deal with their sexuality as hopeless and depressed as possible. In this film we can see the deep sensibility of the characters, specially the main role, but we can also appreciate a happy end - for once. Coming in terms with being gay may has been difficult in the past, but it shouldn't be so difficult anymore - times are really changing, and I would love to see that more on the big screen. Why should homosexuals deal with their sexuality in a different way than heterosexuals? I enjoyed this movie a lot, beautiful and deeply developed characters, tender love story and breathtaking landscapes.

This is certainly one of the best of one of France's great directors. The cast is perfect, and the two youths beautifully played. Their antagonism at the beginning is not uncommon to those who are still foreigners to their sexuality, and certainly not uncommon to youths far from any centres of so-called gay life. Their attraction is caught by looks that are touching, troubling and moving and the hostility to their own feelings, especially that of Thomas (Corentin Fila ) who lives a more remote life than Damien (Kacey Mottet Klein)who realises his sexual and emotional desires earlier, is perfectly understandable. I will not give away the plot, but mention must be made of the subtle and delicate acting of Damien's mother (Sandrine Kiberlain ) and her exquisite variations of emotions. This is the kind of film that raises homosexuality to a new level in world cinema, and I hope it reaches the wide audience it needs to raise hope, awareness and respect for a choice of love still a problem even in France, and yet no other country could have made this film in quite the same way. Louis Malle's 'Les Amants' which equally showed antipathy between the two lovers was considered a great breakthrough in portraying sexual love for heterosexuals. This film equals it in beauty of image, and its wisdom, and it is a crying shame it was not given the Golden Bear at Berlin. A masterpiece.