This remarkable Belgian drama follows two inseparable 13-year-old best friends Leo and Remi - one more sporty and sociable, the other a sensitive musician - but as they start to grow up, peer pressure mounts and their friendship fractures, an unbearable mid-point tragedy changes everything with an overwhelmingly sad second half. It is a very simple but extremely powerful tale, showing adults and children trying to deal with the unimaginable and unfathomable and capturing the innocence and naivete of childhood and the depths of emotion very well, with the shift in tone handled very starkly and effectively. The two young actors, Gustav De Waele as Remi and especially Eden Dambrine as Leo, give terrific and heartfelt performances, and this delicate story of the intensity of friendship and the paralysis of grief is told with heartbreaking honesty and clarity.
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