Summer Blues (2002) User Reviews

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[Kirpianuscus · 14 January 2017]

the great cinematography. this is the basic virtue of this sensitive, bitter, delicate and tender film about friendship and about desire, about crisis in couple and a meet after a long time. the freshness of acting represents the second good point. not the last, the smart manner to create the axis scene, exploration of the body of Mads, who has the tension and delicacy who gives to entire film a precise - subtle frame. nothing surprising from Frank Mosvold. but beautiful for the science to explore a theme in the most seductive manner. because it is more than version of his films with same subject. only build of new dimension of an age who remains the golden border between life levels.

Felt far away from reality to me

[Horst_In_Translation · 2/10 · 10 February 2018]

"Summer Blues" is despite the title a Norwegian Norwegian-language short film, so subtitles may be necessary. It was released back in 2002, so it had its 15th anniversary last year already and the writer and director is Frank Mosvold. It seems as if a great part of his career is built on gay-themed (short) films and here we got just one example. It runs for 25 minutes and tells us the story of two boys and their girlfriends who may or may not be in the way of the guys' true romantic feelings. The start was solid and maybe the best the film had to offer, but from halfway into the film it goes south pretty quickly. The sleeping/kissing scene was supposed to be the highlight, but it turns out the exact opposite as honestly there is no way he would not have known and please don't say it may indeed be that he knew all along, which doesn't make it unrealistic, but then the dark-haired guy must be pretty stupid if he thought the blonde boy would not recognize him there. Everything that follows afterward isn't hardly any better, but without these nefative deal-breaking scene I may have given it at least 2 out of 5 and not 2 out of 10. The acting, especially by the guys, was lackluster and can't be justified by the "cool and reserved" state of mind of the boys. So all in all, not a good watch by any means and the ending with the farewell scene is not helping matters either. Not recommended at all. Watch something else instead.