As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges for two of his classmates: a country boy, and a French-Algerian intellectual.
Some of the political undertones may go astray, but the emotional center of the film is touching and honest.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
French helmer Andre Techine's most personal--and arguably best--film is one of the few foreign language pictures that was recognized by most critics groups in the U.S.