immoralq

This is a very sweet and soft film, and I enjoyed watching it, it just feels contradictory.

One the one hand, it's a very slow-paced movie, yet what happens in the context of the movie happens remarkably fast. We see the two characters go from having sex for the first time, to apparently being in a relationship, to breaking up and making up all the space of less than a hour. (The first twenty minutes are just setting the scene, as with all movies.)

The acting, at least by the two leads, feels very genuine and I connected with them, but it was very difficult because the film lacked the close-ups necessary to make that easy. Intimate moments where you would expect a close-up are shot from middle or even long distance.

This is possibly to disguise the fact that the characters weren't really kissing. Another problem that detracts from the portrayal of the emotional intimacy of the couple, and which I noticed anyway despite the lack of close-ups.

All in all, this is a nice movie and it's worth a watch if you want a break from the melodrama and angst of harder BL.

Rewatch value? Yeah, I'd probably watch this again. It's a keeper.