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Some gay themed films go out of favor, then come back. They can be discovered anew. Somehow, in its second life,Come Undone (2000) has somehow transformed into a coming of age film which happens to be gay. Did I change? The times? It hardly matters. It is a beautiful film about a summer/winter romance in a French seaside town in which the main character Matthieu gets to find himself as well as a friend and partner. The film is structured without a structure and avoids conclusion. It shows rather than tell. Matthieu does not get all his answers but seems, by the end, to have enough to move on. Happily. There is a beginning and end, but the film is episodic moving forward and backward in time. We get to assemble the pieces as, it seems, Matthieu is doing when he revisits his seaside town and remembers. I obviously wanted to see it again because I bought it when it came out recently and now, I will want to see it again. Perhaps the next time I look, it will have become even yet a another story. Very rich. Evocative. Nice guys. Good romantic scenes. Solid story. A 5 out of Netflix5 over and over.

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