Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Crushees
A swimming coach gets a crush on a student swimmer and the swimmer gets a crush on the coach.
Forbidden. Marco Berger explores the ramifications of such a situation. There is a lot of silence and a good deal of very well composed music. Berger's soundscapes are very good and they sometime take over the proceedings. In a good way I think. He is even able to use the 60 cycle hum well.
The cast here is excellent. Some of the stock Marco Berger players.
It is nice that no one is a hunk or an A list gay. They are just plain guys who find attraction to each other in an environment that will not permit and form of consummation.
We are treated, in the end, to a fantasy of such a result and that is very nice to see indeed. Fantasies are permitted in our culture as long as no one actually does anything about them.
Burger has borrowed a lot from Hitchcock and much of this film takes on a psychological bent toward fear. Anxiety.
Very good. I love to watch other people squirm! Don't you?
A 5 out of Netflix5 if it was a Netflix film but it is not.
It is part of our collection.
