Sad: it is true Neighbora film that strikes and moves like few others, nominated for an Oscar for best international film, where it competes with Argentina, 1985by Santiago Mitre, and which tells of a friendship or a relationship like few others.
Belgian director Lucas doesn’t he had already stoked the fire, incited and aroused interest with lass, his first job. It was the story of a young transgender woman who wanted to enter a dance school. Dhont said so in the interview with clarion: Yes lass It was about femininity Neighbor talk about masculinity. And masculinity, which are not quite the same thing.
Léo (Eden Dambrine) and Rémi (Gustav De Waele) are two 13-year-old boys. Lifelong friends, inseparable, they share trips, jokes, school. They live in the countryside and Léo usually spends the night at Rémi’s house. He gets along wildly with his friend’s mother – the mothers’ roles are played by Émilie Dequenne, from Rosettewhich is Sophie, and Léa Drucke, Nathalie-.
Their games are innocent, but Léo looks at Rémi differently.
They are the schoolmates who ask them if they are a couple. Léo denies it openly, but it is after other men start making malicious comments that Léo, completely bewildered, decides to part ways with Rémi.
wounds being so young
No, it’s not like inside the spirits of the island, but breaking up a friendship can be just as cruel. More so when you’re 13, there’s adult baggage you don’t have, and the world can feel like it’s falling apart. It is not known how to heal wounds.
Because you don’t even know how to express what you feel. Rémi doesn’t understand what happened, and he doesn’t know how to express it to his (ex) friend.
Everything that happens inside Neighbor.
And just as Rémi plays the oboe, Léo will sign up to play ice hockey. The change is evident. One seeks pleasure in art, the other in sport, sometimes brutal.
Friendship, intense, no longer exists. One has emptied the other, and an unexpected event will change Léo’s life, in a 360-degree turn.
Of course, it’s not the same to tell the story of a friendship, tinged with whatever it was, with protagonists who are in puberty as if they were already young or adult. Dhont gave the script to his two protagonists to read just once, and they didn’t feel compelled to copy what they read to paper. You had to create that relationship.
But another of the Belgian filmmaker’s contributions to the discussion of masculinity passes through the sense of virility. But none of this is said in high-sounding words, rather Dhont tries to provide that expression in the demonstrations, in the utterances, in the looks of the protagonists.
There is a careful storytelling and use of color palette Neighbor who (re)discovers the meaning, from the purity of white to the leap to other colors, itinerant shots in fields of flowers. Close is an artistic experience told with simplicity, humility, talent and lots and lots of content and passion.
Neighbor
Drama. Belgium/Netherlands/France, 2022. 104′, SAM 16. From: Luca Dont. With: Eden Dambrine, Gustav De Waele, Émilie Dequenne, Léa Drucker. Rooms: Showcase Belgrano and Norcenter, Cinépolis Recoleta, Cinemark Palermo.
Source: Clarin
