What a Great Movie

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yeah, for me it was a relaxing pleasure...it was different from the movies i'd been watching lately. no crazy gun shots or saying f@#! every 5 mins...and thandie blew my mind (she's my new fav actress as well)..she was elegant but so rebellious...and on top of that she has grow into a even more beautiful person...

yeah good movie, it's refreshing to see a movie about teenagers that doesn't need to dumb them down



so many movies, so little time

Cool.

One of the best coming of age films I've seen, check out the prequel to this called The Year My Voice Broke (1987), which is about Noah Taylor's character from Flirting (Danny Embling) in a small Australian town in the early 60's, it's a lot darker then Flirting and more downbeat, I prefer Flirting but many prefer TYMVB. Also you see a young Ben Mendelsohn in a early role.

I Just love this film, in part's especially Danny's V/O moment's are so damn poetic and Thandie Newton delivers probably one of her greatest performances. The sadly underrated Noah Taylor is fantastic in this as he was in the prequel. The setting in a boarding school is great. Some of the camera work in this is fantastic, as is the score. Nicole Kidman in late Video and DVD releases is front and center but in reality she's a small supporting role but gives a very good performance. Also you see a early Naomi Watts performance. Such a shame we never got the third part, which was supposedly set in Paris 1968 and I think Newton's character was supposed to return in it.

Such a shame these two films haven't been given proper releases in Europe, have to pay over the odds to ship TYMVB from Australia (where it was given a proper DVD release, with a ton of extras) and I've only seen a bare bone release of Flirting from MGM back in the mid 00's which goes for crazy money these days. A company like Criterion, Arrow or Masters of Cinema should be all over these two films and release them on DVD/Blu Ray and throw a few extras on them. They deserve a proper release.