Moment In The Reeds

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This film was shown at the Chicago Gay Film Festival. I saw it last night and give it a 4/5 thumbs up. It is a bit slow moving but otherwise it is well shot and very well acted.

WARNING - AFTER THIS PLOT POINTS REVEALED. GO NO FURTHER IF IT WILL RUIN IT FOR YOU.

It is the story of a Finnish college student who has returned to his home in Finland after living for years in Paris. He has returned to Finland to work on his (?doctorate) thesis which compares aspects of the poetry of Rimbaud and a Finnish poet. He intends to stay with his father and help his father renovate the family's summer cottage so that the father can sell it. Unfortunately, there has been tension in their relationship since the wife/mother died years before. I got the idea that the son never lived up to the standards that the father had set for him (particularly in the sorts of things "men" are able to do. The main character has no carpentry skills and so the father was required to hire a Syrian co-worker to help the father with the renovation for a few days. Unexpectedly, the father is called away because of his business leaving the very attractive Finnish/Syrian main characters alone in the Finnish countryside with a hot sauna and lots of beer. The Syrian worker has escaped his country during the troubles, well educated and having to leave his family behind. They speak to each other about each other's dreams and aspirations. They, of course, recognize the mounting attraction and end up in some fairly explicit versatile "frolicking." The father eventually returns recognizes both that his son is what he thought he was and that much of the work that he has hired the Syrian worker to do (and that crazily did not include fucking his son) has not been done. So he decides to take the situation out on the Syrian worker. The Syrian worker leaves rather than b treated unfairly and disrespectfully. The son subsequently not only heaps his burgeoning anger on his father for what seems to be the split up of a growing love interest but also the way that the father has treated the mother in the years before she died. You will have to see it to see how it all ends up but as I said in the beginning it is well shot, well acted and you get to see a couple of very nice butts. For cocks you will want to go elsewhere, sorry.