
The story of a romantic relationship between a grown-up and a child. Set in the Netherlands near the end of WWII, the film is a flashback recalling an adolescent relationship between Jeroen and a Canadian soldier. A difficult subject handled with style and feeling.... (Full plot summary below)
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The story of a romantic relationship between a grown-up and a child. Set in the Netherlands near the end of WWII, the film is a flashback recalling an adolescent relationship between Jeroen and a Canadian soldier. A difficult subject handled with style and feeling.
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| User ReviewWil SA truly aweomse Intergenerational Movie that will make you cry, laugh and most importantly...think! True Intergenerational Relationships do happen, and they last as long if not longer than most normal people's relationships do. |
| User ReviewJohn WBeautiful love story. A bit slow to start, but be patient because once the story picks up, you'll see why it's worth the wait. One of my favorite films!! |
| User Reviewjake vincent LA difficult story told tenderly and well. |
| User ReviewAnkur SIts the best movie i have seen in my life.i really love this movie. This movie is about a small boy who came far from his home at the time of World War 2.The child psychology of a 12 yrs old boy is that he always want a person who really can take his care-personally n intimately. Here in this movie we also can see same psychology of this boy. He fall in love with a soldier. I dnt consider it as a gay love. Because this liitle boy looking for some one special who can take his special care as he is already far away from his home and parents. He involved in a deep relationship which is from his core of heart with the soldier. He started to love the soldier truely, whole heartedly by devoting him infront of the soldier. Their relation started to grow like ne thing. They always seat together at the lonely sea beach 2 see the sunset. But one day morning this boy found that, his love went with his troop for war. The bloody truth of life came in front of him. Life show its cruelty very nudely in front of him. He didnt know wat 2 do now. He wait all time for his love. But that soldier didnt come back to him. He always waited at the lonely sea beach alone at the time of sun set where they always seat together, seeing to the see with a little hope that may be one day his love will come from the sea. It is a ultimate love story. There is a love story between a boy and a man but its nt a gay love story or child abusing. If you tell me to define what was the relation between the boy and the soldier, then i will tell you that " in this world some relationship still exist in which we dnt have any right to insult this relationship by giving it ant conventional name" Please watch the movie. Its a amezing creation of purest love story. |
| User ReviewJohn AQuiet, melancholy and daring film with beautiful moments and images. |
| User ReviewVítor SA melancholy tale of star crossed lovers - it's nuances are haunting, the cinematography is amazing and it encourages self reflection. |
| User ReviewBee CI was a young as well when I had my first sexual experience...just gotta love this movie for its endearing theme. Ponder it instead of judging it. And you will see the beauty and innocence of it all. |
| User ReviewJames Beven the straight guys in my dorm were crying with me when they watched this movie, its beautiful and amazing, a classic for the ages. |
| User ReviewDouglas Edward CBased on an autobiography. Jeroen is 12, becoming aware that he is attracted to boys' bodies, not girls', and his sense of feeling different,. To compound his sexual stress, he is living with a family, of fundamentalist, Protestant Christianity. The Netherlands is liberated by the allies and a group of Canadian soldiers arrive in the small rural Dutch village. A gay soldier Walt, probably in his late teens,was really maybe only 17 or 18 and sort of a boy himself, detects Jeroen's homosexuality and begins to court him, and have loving sex with him. No doubt it is controversial, maybe disturbing to many is the fact that the boy does not feel victimized., and seeks out the man's company and greatly romanticizes the experience. The Europeans deal with sexuality in a vastly different manner to the Americans do. like it or not, this is an autobiography, we have to accept that he does not feel that the soldier had wronged him. This is his story; he wished it to be told. |
| User ReviewRich BFor a Lost Soldier (1992) ? When I see ?Strand Releasing? in the opening credits of a movie, it means I?m in for a rough ride. This motion picture company is no stranger to difficult topics. In ?For a Lost Soldier?, a 12 year-old boy, escaping Nazi tyranny by fleeing Amsterdam into the Netherlands, is kept by a sympathizer family as the war drags on. The boy has gay tendencies, but doesn?t realize them until a Canadian solider, more interested in boys than girls, makes friends with him during the liberation of Netherlands. Eventually, the soldier takes advantage of the boy, who has fallen in love with the soldier. One day, the soldier abruptly leaves, breaking the kid?s heart. Years and years later, the kid is an adult (Joroen Krabbe) directing a small ballet company, but the pain of that separation still haunts him. In the end, the movie attempts to resolve his pain into a powerful, new beginning. That, apparently, was lost in the translation. It is a powerful film. A tolerant "foster" father is the most remarkable character in the film. This is director Roeland Kerbosch?s only film, and that?s a shame. I sometimes wonder when I see these great little films and then the guy disappears. Was it his story? The kids never surface again, either, despite strong performances. |