This one, Dark Love (or L'amore Buio) starts off with a brutally unpleasant rape (is there any other kind?), and then becomes a two-part story following the victim and the aggressor (a 15 year old), and the developing relationship between them.
It's a strange and bitty sort of film that doesn't really hang together.
Unlike the deleriously funny It's Kind of a Funny Story.
It stars the lovely (and, fortunately, legal) Keir Gilchrist as a 16 year old for whom life gets just too much. So he checks himself into a teen mental hospital only to find himself on an adult ward and with a minimum 5 day stay. Cue an opportunity for him to learn Important Lessons About Life -- but in a witty and rather engaging way.
There are echoes of early John Hughes, here (that's A Good Thing, of course), in a story zinging with wit and joy, and with some rather jolly animated visuals, too.
In contrast, it felt like an eternity before Denmark's Nothing's All Bad (or Smukke Mennesker) took off -- although there were all sorts of intriguing interludes, including an encounter between a straight-laced and recently-widowed pensioner and a gorgeous, angelically beautiful rent boy:
But the film ends up with a climactic Christmas dinner of the most intense and excruciating social embarrassment I've seen for a very long time. Amazingly daring and witty. Great stuff!
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