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You'll Get Over It
by Picture This Home Entertainment
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DVD
Wolfe
Publisher: Picture This Home Entertainment
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Actors: Julien Baumgartner, Julia Maraval, Jérémie Elkaïm, François Comar, Patrick Bonnel
Vincent (newcomer Julien Baumgartner) is an average high school boy, a good student, and a star swimmer. With his best friend Ste'phane and his beautiful girlfriend Noemie (Julia Maraval), high school life couldn't be better for Vincent... until he meets Benjamin (COME UNDONE Jeremie Elkaim). Vincent keeps crossing paths with the new student, until the two finally have a private moment. The next day, Vincent's idyllic life begins to crumble when the school is vandalized with graffiti labeling him a fag. As the people in his life respond to the news, Vincent faces the inherent challenge of adapting to life as a gay young man. YOU'LL GET OVER IT takes a direct and compassionate look at Vincent's struggle.
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| You'll Get Over It |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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a young man who is in the closet is accidently outed by a
fellow new guy who is attracted to him
usual problems follow
his best friend stays loyal to him
would have like to see more of his new relationship
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| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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although in the french language and engish subtitles, this is an excellant movie for the young gay man. a movie for those of you who still have a questionable "faghag", non-homophobic friends and as with all families in the world, a not so perfect family. loved this movie.
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| Pretty Basic. |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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Although the movie was pretty basic it was still a good movie. Coming out was the only topic throughout the entire movie, it didn't include sub-plots like other gay movies it was just one story and that might have bored the movie down. Overall, I figured the movie to be lacking the intensity that other gay coming out stories involve but this one was just bleh. Everything was presented as if the main actor lived in Disneyland- he was outed, everyone believed the rumor, his parents found out, his girlfriend accepted and they all went about their life as if noting happened. He was accepted by his parents, his girlfriend still loved him, his best male friend still wanted to be his pal (which was a good point) the coach still treated him the same it was as if this story could be taking place in 2100 when being gay is just like global warming- everyone will eventually forget it's a problem and accept it. In the end all the stories concluded themselves, no one got shot, no one died and no one got hurt pretty good feel good movie if you want to come out and need some help.
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| Getting By |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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"YOU'LL GET OVER IT"
Getting By
Amos Lassen and Cinema Pride
Today's wide gay audience has become more demanding and want to see movies that deal with important issues such as coming out. We are also dealing with issues like gay identity at younger ages. Coming out stories used to de4al with guys in their 30s but now we have stories of high school teenagers dealing with coming out issues. They once worried about puberty and acne and per acceptance. Now they seem to worry about tricks and sex. "You'll Get Over It" (Picture This Entertainment) is a French film that deals with the issue. It is not as literate as other gay coming out stories but it is an attempt to look at the younger gays and the problems they have.
Julian is a star of his school's swimming team and he has arranged hi life very nicely. In public he dates a lovely girl and in private he meets with the older Bruno. However his almost ideal situation begins to change when a new kid, Benjamin, sees right through what he is doing, They are immediately attracted to each others and when others see this rumors start to fly. While fighting, Benjamin accidentally outs Vincent and the damage quickly follows. Everyone seems to turn on Vincent and in just a few hours he becomes a social outcast.
This is the incident that causes Vincent to look for his own self-acceptance and a larger community. His quest for individuality and identity begins drastically in a gay bar and his sociological issues become more and more intense. It is here that the film becomes hard to watch as all of us have experience the same feelings. Therefore it is safe to say that there is nothing new in "You'll Get Over It" but I don't see a problem in watching what so many of us have been through. I do not think that originality necessarily means superiority. It is important for us to relive individual truths so as to make it easier to instruct others about the dangers involved. We do know one thing--in most cases we'll eventually get over it.
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| Very Satisfying Film |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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I have little to add to the many insightful reviews of this charming and very well acted addition to the canon of French-language "coming out" films...
...Except for one aspect of the DVD presentation that I think may be worth mentioning and which is the only reason that I can't give it five stars: the often even-more-ghastly-than-usual subtitles. I've seldom seen such a succession of stilted (and sometimes downright grotesque) "translations" of French dialogue. (Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to turn the little devils off, should one be so inclined...a polite suggestion perhaps that such an option might be much appreciated even by purchasers in Region 1?) Viewers of this film who understand spoken French will, in my opinion, find it *far* more rewarding and enjoyable than those who have to rely on the often jarring "interpretations" of the dialogue suggested by the subtitles.
But, fortunately, even the (imo) most tortured of the subtitles can't derail the excellent performances or the satisfying evolution of Vincent's "dilemma." So, with that one negative criticism, I heartily recommend this film, as have most of the reviewers here. It offers innocence and the blush of young romance, but is powerful and intelligent; it presents a sympathetic and rational perspective on coming out, but doesn't shy away from some of the harsh and irrational realities that can and do confront a young Gay man and his friends during the process. Individuals who enjoy a European approach to Gay films will, I believe, definitely appreciate this one and be very satisfied in adding it to their collection. And perhaps, like me, smile as they wonder what Vincent and his new copain might be planning as the final credits roll.
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