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After having partied for 48 hours straight, Harry meets Johannes on a Berlin dancefloor. When Johannes offers to help Harry print his boarding pass for the plane back to Britain, what initially looks like a one-night stand develops into a candid day-long conversation about sex, love and life as a gay man. Taking its cues from Andrew Haigh’s Weekend and Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise, Boy Meets Boy is a universal story of an unforgettable chance meeting between two strangers, which explores society’s stereotypical ideas about gay men. (Bergen International Film Festival)
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With its intimate story, Boy Meets Boy reminded me of the (more sensual) French film Théo and Hugo, which also centered on a chance encounter between two men and their interaction over the span of a few hours. Lopez's film has a slower pace, and it is only in the last act, after having addressed many topics (ranging from the quite superficial to the more intimate), that a more dramatic, and audience-appealing, confrontation between the two men occurs. Boy Meets Boy is a conversational one-off in the truest sense of the word, with the rule that every person has their own (world)view. PS: Having visited Berlin countless times, it was good to go back again, even if not physically.
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