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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)Binding: DVD EAN: 9781567302479 Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, NTSC ISBN: 1567302475 Label: New Yorker Video Languages: Manufacturer: New Yorker Video MPN: D82801D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Yorker Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: December 11, 2001 Running Time: 90 minutes Studio: New Yorker Video Theatrical Release Date: February 02, 2001 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: In America, two boys at the beach with no parental supervision leads to dumb, artificial sex comedies; in Europe, the same material can turn into something genuine and sweet. In a small seaside town near Barcelona, Nico comes to visit his best friend Dani, whose parents are away for the summer. They have the typical male teenager obsessions with masturbation and girls--but Dani is just beginning to realize that he's more interested in Nico than the local girls they've been flirting with. The setup isn't unusual, but what is remarkable about Nico and Dani is the unforced naturalism of the acting and the way the story unfolds. All the young actors give simple but nuanced performances, capturing in detail the charming awkwardness of adolescence, with frank sex scenes that are more clumsy and hopeful than erotic. Winner of the Prix de Jeunesse award at Cannes. --Bret Fetzer Average Rating:
 Rating: - This spoke to me!I was never this lucky in my youth, so I don't speak from experience. Still, I was pleasantly surprised by this film. First, many say there's not enough work about gay youth and this fills that void, given the fear that some cultures have about teen sexuality, and specifically male-on-male action. Many people say actions come before identfications. There are adults who are far different from the children they were "playing doctor." This movie shows what happens as boys who mess around start ... Read More Rating: - That Certain SummerDani (Fernando Ramallo) and Nico (Jordi Vilches) are two teenage friends who spend one summer together in the seaside near Barcelona. They are skinny, a bit awkward and average in looks, a lot like a lot of sixteen or seventeen-year-old boys who are experimenting with sex with each other and with girls. It may be just a phase that Nico is going through but Dani figures out, and is comfortable with his feelings, that he would rather spend time with Nico than with anyone else. As he tells Nico on one ... Read More Rating:  - Lovely coming-of-age filmI bought this film for its promise of sunshine, feel-good charm, adolescent awakening and a tolerant treatment of homosexuality, and that's just what I got. It is a hundred percent enjoyable film of one summer in the lives of two friends. It is very refreshing to see a Spanish treatment of sexuality that is frank, funny and open without being tasteless -- what a liberating contrast to they way these things appear in most Hollywood films. The film is based on a successful play, and this shows in the ... Read More Rating: - A Prize Winner"NICO AND DANI" A Prize Winner Amos Lassen and Cinema Pride "Nico and Dan" (New Yorker Films) is a beautiful story of two French young men who come of age in a subtle, humorous, compassionate and perceptive way. Set in a resort town on the Mediterranean Sea, the parents of 16 year old Dani have taken off knowing that their son's best friend and schoolmate, Nico, is on his way to stay with him while they are traveling. The boy are not left totally alone-the ... Read More Rating: - Nostalgic Nico y DaniI can't say that when I saw this movie for the first time I loved it. It was probably the 3rd time I saw it on cable, that I truly loved it. This film has so many aspects to it that really take me back to my adolescent years. And also having traveled to Spain back in High School, this brought back a lot of good memories. I loved it! It brought back my days of coming to terms with my sexuality but also just being a dumb adolescent male. The sex, the joints, the beach. Everything in this movie makes me smile. ... Read More |
