Fabrice Cazeneuve's coming-out comedy drama You'll Get Over It (Tu Verras, Ca Te Passeras) was originally aired on television in France. Teenage Vincent (Julien Baumgartner) is the golden boy of his high school and family. He's on the swim team, has an adoring girlfriend in Noemie (Julie Maraval), and a loyal best friend in Stephane (Francois Comar). However, he secretly sees an older Bruno (Nils Ohlund) for discreet sexual encounters. When the new kid at school, Benjamin (Jeremie Elkaim), tries
to pick him up, everyone finds out his secret. His previously supportive network begins to falter, while his mean older brother Regis (Antoine Michel) eggs them on. You'll Get Over It was screened at the 2003 San Francisco Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
You can see the emotions of the characters pass through the actors' faces and bodies. Mr. Baumgartner shines brightest, perhaps because his character is the most conflicted.
There's a naturalness to the entire cast, yet there is considerable depth to the portrayals, and the interplay between the characters is exceptionally rich and nuanced.
Even if [it] has a slightly mustry, afterschool special message to impart...the picture delivers it with sufficient charm and complexity to escape TV-movie mediocrity.
Genuinely engaging performances from Baumgartner and Maravalidealized are kind of wasted in this idealized and dramatically weightless coming(-out)-of-age story...
You?ll Get Over It (2003) ? ?Your best mate and you realize you don?t know anything about him at all.?
Julien Baumgartner stars as Vincent in a movie about a gay teen that is inadvertently outed by a new arrival at his school. Vincent is one of the most popular kids in the school and a star on the swimming team. The
movie is not only about him, but also about his family and closest friends as his social circle adjusts to the news.
A French made foreign film, it attacks the story head on. The writing is smart and it wasn?t long before I was pulled into the story, and the story was far from typical. It was an interesting study in what people will do to protect the gifted, even when they represent their worst fears. The cinematography isn?t fancy, but the director uses some fascinating camera work, particularly with reflections. The acting is kind of amazing, mainly because of the interposition of mature and fear driven behavior. Just watching 17-year old Vincent and his freaked-out girlfriend having a beer in a local restaurant was an arresting scene. It?s a way cool movie.
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