You Are Not Alone
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Movie Reviews of You Are Not Alone
Movie Review: perfect.
Summary: 5 Stars
Has became my. Favorite movie. I can watch it over and over again. Gas a beautiful gay kissing scene. And a wonderful hat coming of age.Movie Review: You are not alone
Summary: 5 Stars
Outstanding,.... sweet.... young,,, innocent
friendship... love.... funny...
LOVED IT ALOT
Great movie !
Movie Review: great love story
Summary: 5 Stars
It is a great love story for 2 boys in a boarding house that go good together.Movie Review: Finding Self, Finding Love
Summary: 4 Stars
DU ER IKKE ALENE (You Are Not Alone) is a 1978 Danish landmark film written by Lasse Nielsen and Bent Petersen and directed by Nielsen and Ernst Johansen. When the period during which this film was made, a time when gay theme movies were all but verboten, this little film is a brave, delicate, tender, unpretentious tale of the bonding, both emotional and physical, that occurs between two young boys in a boarding school in Denmark. The story develops slowly and insidiously, a fact that makes some viewers find it boring or slow. But for this viewer the pacing of the story is intricately involved in this tale of the fragile first attractions that occur in young boys: everything is new, and nothing is rushed - it just happens and evolves.
Kim (Peter Bjerg) is a young prepuberal youth living with his parents: his father (Ove Sprogøe) is headmaster of a boys' school and his mother (Elin Reimer) is in line with the father's hardline standards. Though not a student in the school, Kim does associate with the young high school age boys and finds one lad in particular, Bo (Anders Agensø), a role model who shows concern for Kim and with whom Kim bonds, emotionally and eventually physically. The manner in which this occurs is never acted out but merely suggested in the most discreet and beautiful way. But we watch as this bond develops more strongly, with each of the boys nascent to the situation in which they find themselves.
The classmates are a varied group - normal kids in a normal school situation - until one of the boys Ole (Ole Meyer), who is somewhat of a trouble-maker, posts magazine pictures of nude women in his dorm room. Reprimanded by the headmaster he is put on probation and when he ultimately posts the contraband pictures in the dorm restroom, he is threatened with expulsion. His classmates band together to protect him and Ole is maintained in the school.
Other sidebar stories that pepper the screen are swimming hole escapades where the injury of one of the boys calls forth the empathy of the entire class; there is a vignette where an older woman tries to teach one of the boys the beauties of physical love; there is a shower scene that finds Bo and Kim gently observing each other; and there is a class project for graduation that is supposed to be an enactment of the 10 Commandments, one episode of which is assigned to a student filmmaker.
It is this finished class project film, shown before the faculty and the parents, that is based on the commandment 'Love thy neighbor' and it is a beautifully wrought scene of Bo and Kim embracing and kissing in one of the more honest and sensitive moments on film. The 'non-story' film ends without an audience response: it simply fades away to a tune that speaks of 'You are not alone - there is someone like you ahead.' No, this is not a film about nudity or raw sex. Instead this film is a brave exploration of the normal period in growth when boys search for role models and find their first sensations of love emerging. It is delicate, beautifully filmed and acted, and is one of the early forays into same sex love that works on every level. Grady Harp, December 06
Movie Review: Sweet, and ultimately nostalgic, Danish film
Summary: 4 Stars
Being a gay person, and also being incredibly interested in Denmark, I found this film to be a wonderful and largely unique viewing experience. The story is a simple one: two boys at a live-in school, one a student, one the headmaster's son, dig one another, and the film is an extended series of sequences showing this transformation from platonic to affectionate. There is nothing sensationalist or exploitative about the film's contents, and the sexuality is largely restrained. In fact, heavier notice is given to one of the rebelious heterosexual student's rather obsessive need to post female pornography all over any bare surface, which makes a nice contrast between the "deplorable" nature of homosexuality as the (minority) hyper-conservatives in Denmark saw it at the time, and the depths of average human sexuality across the entire sexual spectrum. In the end you're left with a wonderful and touching recording of youth during an era in European history that has largely passed, and a time capsule of this period of time. It also shows just how far behind this liberalization the United States continues to lag; this is the sort of film that, even today, wouldn't be made for cinemas in America, and probably won't for some time, as it humanizes the young gay experience.
This is a thoroughly rewatchable film, great rainy afternoon fodder for those stuck inside. The long nature shots, and isolated views of ponds and waterways in the second half of the film that serve as dividers between emotionally-heavy scenes, are lush and hazy and everything that a memory is. A really great movie that I'm very glad I discovered.