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Director: Lukas Dhont, France\/Belgium\/Netherlands 2022, 105 mins, 12A<\/p>\n

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"This beautiful elegy of lost innocence belongs in the pantheon of films about childhood" Time Out<\/i>
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When the intensely devoted friendship between two thirteen-year-old boys, L\u00e9o and R\u00e9mi, suddenly gets disrupted as a result of spiteful bullying and ignorance, L\u00e9o attempts to understand what has happened, eventually confronting R\u00e9mi\u2019s mother. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes, Lukas Dhont\u2019s second film is searingly emotional and an unforgettable portrait of the intersection of friendship and love, identity and independence.
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"A tale of childhood bonds broken lands a weighty emotional punch in writer-director Lukas Dhont\u2019s Oscar-nominated second film" The Observer<\/i>
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Further reading<\/h4>\n
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  1. Time Out<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Irish Times<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. The Observer<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Empire<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ol>\n

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