Saturday, February 29, 2020

Romancefest 2020: Beach Rats


Written and Directed by Eliza Hittman. Starring Harris Dickinson, Madeline Weinstein and Kate Hodge. USA, 2017

A Brooklyn boy comes of age hanging out with his friends at Coney Island, torn between his desire to meet men online and sleep with them and his feelings he should pursue a more “normal” heterosexual relationship.

This isn’t really a romance in a traditional sense, but I decided to go ahead with it anyway since it is about relationships and sex. This is an understated, subtle movie that is beautifully shot and acted, and, to its credit, explores a subject that often doesn’t get much play in drama – the struggle to understand one’s own sexual orientation.

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