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Paramount+Two 13-year-old boys spend an idyllic summer together, but their connection is put to the test when they become the subject of speculation at school.
fuboTVParamount+Two 13-year-old boys spend an idyllic summer together, but their connection is put to the test when they become the subject of speculation at school.
Close (2022) is a tender and gut-wrenching masterpiece of sorrow vulnerability I watched Close last night and I am still struggling to put the emotional devastation that it carries into words.
(These are not irrelevant questions, even if the film stubbornly refuses to address them.) In the real world, by the age of 13, many boys have already had their first sexual experiences with neighbors, cousins or classmates, if not predatory adults in their circle — and here I’m speaking not just of gay boys but all young men, regardless of who or what they wind up fancying. It probably wouldn’t be appropriate for “Close” to dramatize such dynamics between two minors, but it would go a long way toward answering the movie’s million-dollar question.
