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Boys Feels: High Tide
France / Netherlands / Denmark / Germany 2011/2013/2014/2016/2021
produced by segment Océan: Karine Blanc, Michel Tavares for Takami Productions, segment Daan Durft: Marc Bary, Steven Rubinstein Malamud (executive), Eline van Hagen (supervising) for IJswater Films, segment The Boy in the Ocean: Ida Åkerstrøm Knudsen, Friedrich Tiedtke for Zentropa, segment Beach Boy: FilmArche, Milieufilm, filmgestalten
directed by segment Océan: Emmanuel Laborie, segment Daan Durft: Mari Sanders, segment The Boy in the Ocean: Friedrich Tiedtke, segment Beach Boy: Hannes Hirsch
starring segment Océan: Adam Lenglen, Julia Faure, Michaël Abiteboul, Cyrius Rosset, Stéphane Blancafort, Ellie Etienne, Stella Beuvard, Michel Tavares, Géraldine Sales; segment Daan Durft: Jorrit de Jong, Marleen Scholten, Bas Keijzer, Gijs Rodolphe, Kees Boot, Remco Melles, Jaap ten Holt, Jan-Phil, Sarah Van Hulten; segment The Boy in the Ocean: Mika Seidel, Barbara Philipp, Andreas Nickl, Fie London, Anders Khayat, Mikkel Jacobsen; segment Beach Boy: Tom Gramenz, Lore Richter, Timo Jacobs, Linda Pöppel, Andrea Gabrin, Ira Wandschneider
segment Océan: written by Emmanuel Laborie, music by Emily Loizeau, segment Daan Durft: story by Jan-Willem Bult, screenplay by Lianne Damen, music by Bart Westerlaken, segment The Boy in the Ocean: written by Ida Åkerstrøm Knudsen, Friedrich Tiedtke, music by Nikolaj Hess, Friedrich Tiedtke, segment Beach Boy: written by Hannes Hirsch, music by Jana Sotzko
review by Mike Haberfelner
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- Océan (2013): On summer vacation at the beach with his
parents (Julia Faure, Michael Abiteboul) and younger brother (Cyrius
Rosset), 10 year old Jean (Adam Lenglen), seeing the drowned body of
someone he fleetingly knew (Stéphane Blancafort) is faced with
mortality the first time ...
- Go Daan Go!/Daan Durft (2014): When 9 year old Daan
(Jorrit de Jong) discovers he's really good at swimming and enjoys it
a lot, too, he wants to join a swimming club to take it to the next
level - but his mother (Marleen Scholten), a former worldcup swimmer
who had to give up swimming due to a heart problem, is dead-set
against it ...
- The Boy in the Ocean (2016): Every year, Mathias (Mika
Seidel) spends his sommer vacation with his parents (Andreas Nickl,
Barbara Philipp) on their boat fishing somewhere in the North Sea -
but he's 12 now, has his sexual awakening, and falls in love with an
older Danish girl (Fie London), who hardly acknowledges his existence.
And he's still young enough to haven't the faintest idea how to handle
his feelings ...
- Beach Boy (2011): On a camping trip to the sea with his older brother
Steffen (Timo Jacobs), teenaged Dimi (Tom Gramenz) falls madly in love
with Isabelle (Lore Richter), who turns out to be Steffen's girlfriend
- and this can only lead to chaos, especially since Dimi hasn't
learned how to deal with such emotions yet ...
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A pan-European collection of aquatically-themed coming-of-age shorts, this movie,
despite its segments varying in approach and also in subtlety, comes into
its own thanks to the wide array of topics - from sexual awakening to
trying to come to terms with one's own mortality - it covers in a
generally unexcited way that avoids spectacle, with the shorts all being
grounded and relatable, yet treating universal themes in a very individual
manner, and more like a slice-of-life than message movie. And while not
all the segments hit home with equal accuracy, each does make at least
some points to muse about and has at least something for every viewer to
take away.
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