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Just saw a wonderful new German film (with English subtitles) "SummerStorm" about a young man's coming out while on his school's competitive rowing team. Beautifully photographed in the German countryside and sensatively acted, you may have a hard time finding except in larger cities. In New York it's playing in only one theater. If you can't find a theatre where it's playing, try to buy or rent the DVD when it comes out.

 

http://www.afterelton.com/movies/2006/photos/summer%20storm/poster.jpg

 

http://www.afterelton.com/movies/2006/photos/summer%20storm/row.jpg

 

http://www.indiewire.com/movies/summerstorm_iw1.jpg

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RE: Movie "Summer Storm"

 

I would certainly agree with that opinion as to how wonderful the acting is. Here is the entire brief review from the Village Voice:

 

"Gays and straights alike must have had it by now with coming-out movies, which, however well-intentioned follow a familiar trajectory from torment to celebration. Marco Kreuzpaintner's quasi-autobiographical SUMMER STORM is a double surprise--a coming-out movie with brains and flair, from Germany, where gays in recent mainstream films have been rent boys, drag queens, or drug addicts, and mostly the subject of bad jokes. Best-friend teens Tobi (Robert Stadlober) and Achim (Kostja Ullmann) members of a successful Baverian rowing team, arrive for the big yearly regata and learn that the competitive Berlin women's team has been replaced by an athletic all-gay male team called "the Queerstrokes" (QueerSchlag does in fact exist--the actors trained with the gay team to develop their rowing skills.) After an uneasy beginning marked by traded insults---for the Berlin "fairies", the Bavarians are "hillbillies"---Tobi and his teammates begin to grapple with their prejudices and hidden longings. One of the films major assets is Stadlober's winningly natural performance---his moody charisma is irrestible."

 

Thanks for providing us with all those nice pictures.

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