“Being the two people in a crowded room that have this secret between you is...very poignant and romantic,” says the movie's writer-director Goran Stolevski.
, out now, tells the story of the gay awakening of 17-year-old Nikola , spurred by a road trip to retrieve his best friend Ebony with her older brother Adam . Like many of the movies that allow queers to live together in a blissful silo,forges bittersweetness from the terminal nature of this life-altering connection—the day after they meet, Adam is set to head to Buenos Aires to begin his doctorate.
“Every audition was like a kid putting on a selfie face and then like, kind of thinking about how they look while they’re being looked at and, you know, just the sense of trying to say the lines in a way that seems witty,” said Stolevski. “It was very presentational. Whereas with Elias, feelings were flowing out, it almost felt like in an unconscious way.
Another inclusion is Tori Amos, whose 1998 b-side “Cooling” plays in a pivotal scene. Like Adam, who reveals his email handle contains “YKantAdamRead,” a reference to Amos’s cult 1988 debut albumYou Won’t Be Alone “Tori Amos was very important to me,” he continued. “[During the scene] while this boy is trying to be like, you know, it’s okay to be gay, she’s singing in the background, ‘Is your place in heaven worth giving up these kisses?’ There’s a lot of lyrics of Tori Amos that I found emotional solace in, but I was really happy I could include that one.”fits within queer film tradition is one thing.
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