A young man navigates intimate, gritty chapters of life, earnestly seeking himself amidst love's ecstasy and pain.
Melancholy and earnest. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is devastating.
Streaming on Netflix, The Roku Channel (free) and YouTube (free).
Nothing past what an R promises: moderate sex and nudity, and some violence.
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The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
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