My Friendship 2 (2022)

Les prémisses de l'amour et ses errements

C'est un joyau brut. La narration est simple sans chichi inutile et le jeu des acteurs est si juste et prenant. Le personnage de Jack est particulièrement bien décrit avec beaucoup de tendresse, de respect et de beauté, l'acteur est fabuleux. Le personnage de Bank est aussi bien dépeint, ses errements et enfin l'évidence de l'affection sont bien joués. Mon seul bémol est le fait que la rupture avec la petite amie aurait pu être plus décrite, pourquoi cette rupture? Sinon franchement il faut avoir vu ces deux épisodes si l'on aime les BL. La scène finale est très bien jouée aussi, on est totalement à leur place. A voir absolument.

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Beautiful and powerful

This story is so authentic that it hurled me back to that age in a way that I haven't felt in a long time. This is what you can get when you put together good writing, directing, and acting.

In an hour a more complete story was told than you get in most 12-episode series - testament to the power of the image, and how a facial expression can convey more than 20 minutes of voiceover or exposition.

Oak is better in this than anything he's done before, conveying an innocent loneliness, insecurity, and longing in a way that you usually don't see as he's tended to be in more comical roles. Mon is shattering, and I was amazed at his first-rate performance in the last scene. That was very difficult material to pull off, and would have been dull with an off-the-shelf actor, but it's clear he put a lot of work and thought into the scene and received able guidance from the director, for whom this is clearly a very personal story.

Highly recommended.

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