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The Portland Lesbian & Gay Film Festival started last Thursday, and runs through next weekend; I'll be going to about a dozen of the films, and then going up to Seattle to their film festival, which starts Friday and runs for about a week --- shorter, but in more venues, for a total of more films with only partial overlap (about half the films in Portland will be up there also).
The first film I went to, was You'll Get Over It (IMDB). It played Saturday, Oct. 11.
This movie, French with subtitles, was a good movie --- kind of a modern coming out story to remind us that even today, it's still not easy. Vincent Molina is the star of the high school swim team, with a girlfriend, best friend and secret boyfriend. One day he meets Benjamin, and after they start to get to know each other, Benjamin accidentally lets a little too much slip in a confrontation with Vincent's teammates, and Vincent is outed. The main part of the movie is then about how Vincent and his friends deal with the situation as Vincent puts the pieces of his life back together.
I thought it was one of the more accessible foreign films, with a story
that crosses cultures and is told in a standard narrative form. The acting
was good, the story interesting and Julien Baumgartner, who plays Vincent,
is very good looking. What more could you want? I give it a 7 out of 10...
Posted by abatie at October 13, 2003 04:28 PM