If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

The movie's only flaw is also a virtue: It's jammed with characters, stories, warmth and laughs.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

First virtue - the trace of Montherlant work. the second - the performances. not the less - the delicacy. a story who could be not comfortable at first sigh. but who propose more than one of many obscure secrets in a Catholic college. it is an exploration of limits. for love, faith, decisions and facts. and, maybe, this is the basic motif to not ignore it. for a sort of portrait of a time more than portrait of characters.

This is one of those badly made films that pretends to be about something (what, I don't know), but ends up being a tedious, bloated boor. In fact, the last 20 minutes of the 'film' are taken up by a dialog between 2 priests in which neither says anything of any interest to anyone. Yes, the central story is about a gay 'friendship' between 2 boys, but with no explanation as to why there is any attraction between the two. Yes there is a kiss between the two, but that's the only bit of physical contact. And of course, all the priests are pedophiles (not gay) which is the only realistic thing about this film and pseudo-sadists. And there is, mercifully, no mention of god or Christ or religion, even though this is a film about a Catiolic boys' school. And, unfortunately the two adult actors are quite poor. All in all this is a scattered, nihilistic, extremely dull mess of a film with little, if anything to recommend it. Don't waste your time.

The spoiler is not about the plot, but about the ages of the two boys. To me they appeared to be 14 and 9 or so. Add 4 years to each boy's age and you get a more realistic love story within a school.I was not wholly satisfied with the plot, because it was rather banal, but I can't fault the acting, which was excellent, right down to the glint in Sevrais's eyes when he sees Souplier in the gym I wonder, too, if there was a pun or two in the boys' names: Sevrais "C'est Vrais" (for he told the truth a lot) and "Souplier" perhaps "Supplicant? The final scenes do call into question the entire church hierarchy and its "mastery" of sins of the flesh

As usual a beautiful performance by young actor Nael Marandin, here only 16 years old. I hope Marandin will continue acting although I don't think he's appeared in a movie since 1998. The story is also beautiful and the subject doesn't feel out of date at all. Recommended to those who can appreciate a nice, little flick with a slow pace.