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Provocative and deftly written queer coming-of-age film explores the power of sexual attraction, but also the sort of nostalgia we have for our own adolescence. “With every glance I see memory forming in Anne, in Marie, in Floriane,” writes Autostraddle’s Drew Gregory. “I see moments they’re not old enough to understand that will be revisited again and again until they do.” The Way He Looks (Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho) (2014)Based on writer and director Daniel Ribeiro’s 2010 short film I Don’t Want to Go Back Alone (Eu Não Quero Voltar Sozinho), The Way He Looks is a coming-of-age story set in Brazil.
Leonardo (Ghilherme Lobo), a blind high schooler, is frustrated with his overbearing Germany WhatsApp Number Data parents and lamenting the fact that he hasn’t kissed anyone yet. Leonardo tells his best friend, Giovana (Tess Amorim), that he’s afraid nobody wants to kiss him. Ghilherme Lobo and Fábio Audi in The Way He Looks. Photo Courtesy Vitrine FilmsLacuna FilmesIMDbAnd then, one day, a new student shows up at school. Pretty quickly, Leonardo bonds with this newbie, Gabriel (Fábio Audi). The tentative, slow-burn romance that follows is cute — and there’s an exhilarating scene with the teens on a bike that really captures all the bluster of young love.
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)Based on emily m. danforth’s coming-of-age novel of the same name, The Miseducation of Cameron Post was written and directed by Appropriate Behavior‘s Desiree Akhavan. Set in 1993, the film follows Cameron Post (Chloe Grace-Moretz), who’s involved in a secret same-sex relationship with her best friend Coley Taylor. Forrest Goodluck, Sasha Lane and Chloe Grace-Moretz in The Miseducation of Cameron Post. Photo Courtesy FilmRiseIMDbCameron is outed when her
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