Boys Life 5

A very interesting movie. It too me a little while to get into it, but it is entertaining and makes me thinksof Stephen Hawkins warnings

I was glad to see a new volume in the 'Boys Life' series and looked forward to it's continuence of quality gay shorts. However Volume 5 has let me down slightly. 'DARE' provides us with another oppotunity to relive those exciting young feelings we experienced at school, however it just falls short of delivering. 'Time Off' (from the maker of the feature film 'Yossi & Jagger') gets bogged down with dialogue and doesn't let the story develope on it's own merrits dispite it's lenghthy 45min running time. However, 'Fishbelly White' is indeed mysterious and disturbing at the same time. The saving grace of this set, and well worth the purchase price, is 'Late Summer'. Here we are dragged immediately into the life of a young boy whose Father has just died & how he spends his summer with his cousin. Truly a case of love & love lost, the ending will effect you long after your viewing. So 3 out of 5. Buy it if your collecting the series, if only for 'Last Summer', great stuff.

Good rendition of the movie Mudge boy. I liked it as a short. both main actors were well script. nice

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I thought these four vignettes were weak when it came to intimate gay sex. It could of been improved. I would not recommend purchasing this product. The stories were somewhat interesting. That is the best thing I can say about this four part video production. And the red headed boy looked nice. In all the production was generally weak.

Good

Very good short film.

good series

The first release in this series is the best collection of short films I've ever seen, and this one would equal it were it not for the tedious last film, by Eytan Fox, that is unfortunately the longest at 45 minutes. Set in the Israeli army, it tells a dull story of how a lieutenant and one of the recruits are both gay, as the recruit finds out, but this is only apparent towards the end. Up to that point, it is a series of desultory scenes depicting army life that seems to have no direction, being too superficial to involve us with the characters, and not realistic enough to have any impact.Leaving that aside, there are 65 minutes of superlative short films: Dare shows two adolescents in a tense game of teasing out who desires whom, in a swimming pool, as one ostensibly helps the other learn lines for a school play. The characterisation is very sharp and it has striking images. Fishbelly White is about a strange boy in his mid-teens who has an attachment to a chicken that makes him the object of taunting by local youths. He becomes attracted to one of these, leading to a dramatic turn of events. The film was later made as a feature length film called The Mudge Boy, which is a masterpiece of dysfunction and smouldering sexuality; the short has different actors who do not quite have the power of the ones cast in the longer version, but it is appealing even so. The best of all here is Late Summer - about the most enjoyable twenty-six minutes you could spend in a cinema. It shows a boy of about fourteen called Adam, whose father dies, so he is sent for a time to live with his aunt and uncle. His cousin Josh is about 17 and takes him under his wing, initiating him into the joys of smoking pot, skateboarding, skinny-dipping and other things. Adam falls somewhat for Josh, who remains more or less unaware of it, probably, although he is extremely kind to him. The film is incredibly moving.