
Close
Two 13-year-old boys spend an idyllic summer together, but their connection is put to the test when they become the subject of speculation at school.
- 7.8
- 2022
- Released
- 1h 44m

Eden Dambrine
Léo
Gustav De Waele
Rémi
Émilie Dequenne
Sophie
Léa Drucker
Nathalie
Igor van Dessel
Charlie
Kevin Janssens
Peter
Marc Weiss
Yves
Léon Bataille
Baptiste
Serine Ayari
Céline
Robin Keyaert
Thomas
Herman van Slambrouck
Mark
Iven Deduytschaver
Ice Hockey Coach
Jeffrey Vanhaeren
Ice Hockey Coach
Hélène Theunissen
Denise
Baptiste Bataille
Baptiste's Father
Pieter Piron
Doctor
Freya De Corte
Teacher
Cachou Kirsch
Sophie's Colleague
Ahlaam Teghadouini
Sophie's Colleague
Hervé Guerrisi
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Released
fr
$3,129,968.00
- #friendship
- #suicide
- #forgiveness
- #male friendship
- #melancholy
- #bullying
- #ice hockey
- #coming of age
- #grief
- #best friend
- #teenage boy
- #bike
- #guilt
- #childhood
- #lgbt
- #childhood friends
- #peer pressure
- #masculinity
- #intimacy
- #death of best friend
- #grim
- #field trip
- #boyhood
- #vulnerability
- #oboe
- #complex
- #sad
- #boys' love (bl)
- #depressing
Reviews
I don't rate a film 10/10 unless it's wonderful and my reviews tend to be motivated by either abject disappointment or outright admiration. I think that's very much most people's experience of film, you either love it or you don't. With Close, there's everything to love and it is an exercise in pure love, not just in its storyline but also the art of film, acting and storytelling. Importantly.

Thirteen year old "Léo" (Eden Dambrine) and his schoolfriend "Rémi" (Gustav De Waele) are inseparable. The play together, eat together, sleep together - an ideal fraternal relationship. At school, though, their classmates start to make disparaging remarks about them, and the naturally more gregarious "Léo" begins to shun his friend a little, then a little more... Tragedy ensues after "Rémi" doesn'











