This is a drama set in Belgium about a teenage boy who keeps failing his examinations and therefore cannot graduate from high school. He desperately wants to be a tennis pro, but sadly flunks at this too. The alternative future of being forced into going to a training school fills him with such dread he decides to try and cram his way through a jury exam as one final chance to get through. His mother stays away from home most of the time, and his father long divorced and gone refuses to help, so he relies on three 30 year olds friends (?)…. a straight couple, and their single (gay?) friend to help him achieve his goal. He succeeds through a series of private lessons, but does not get through this unscathed.<
Whatever slant you take on this story, there is no escaping that it is about abuse. The 30-year-old friends unhealthy obsession with this teenage boy’s virginity and his initial sexual experiences are far too creepy for words. Letting the boy watch them have intercourse is one thing, but when it comes to taking physical liberties with his body (and playing with his mind so), then I began to find the whole thing exploitation and unacceptable. This is not sex eduction as they claim but outright seduction. I appreciate that filmmaker Joachim Lafosse may want to present this as an avant-garde movie set on pushing boundaries, but frankly I cannot subscribe to that. To me it was just dressed up paedophilia.
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