He Loves Me

I love the audio part, i heard it again immediately, the look is beautiful too, with an extremely dreamy beach. Although the story quite dramatic, but i was also boring with coming of age, coming out, or some real life gay stuff. This film is only about love, but not that kind you always found on a movie, love in this film is a heavy word you had to make great effort to stand it. I was so into this guy thought that my heart broken a little bit thinking that they won't be together in the future, i want them have a happy ever after so much cause this film make it fell like they born to be side by side forever.

If you could do a degree in soft porn, this would be someone's dissertation. But it would be a bare pass.

You can almost see the "actors" responding to the director in real time. Washed out, desaturated colour for no obvious reason. Real sex for no obvious reason. No characterisation for no obvious reason. Droning monotone voiceover for no obvious reason.

This film has no obvious reason to exist, except to feed the film-maker's vanity. I couldn't wait for it to end. Avoid.

A film easy to reduce only at image. Two guys making love on beach, in water, a comentary giving a sort of axis of story, not convincing, less useful, sensuality and naked men in large slices and a bit of nostalgia. Nothing spectacular but enough for seduce.

I have to jump ship with all the other reviews of this film. I found the cinematography outstanding. The 2 actors, I felt, really embraced the storyline. Gay relationships are complicated and the film brings out the emotion of insecurity and guilt from past behaviors by one character and his desire to find the happiness he once felt when the relationship was new. He desperately wants his partner to want him and love him and deep down forgive him and accept him regardless of his (their) mistakes of the past. (I won't mention the behavior, spoiler). Will spending time during the summer together away from the city and surrounded by the beauty and tranquility of the secluded beach bring them back to where they once were? The dialogue begins with an optimistic tone but over the course of time, more is revealed and and the tone darkens. There is a lot of full frontal nudity and sexual content to this film, however I found the actors masculine and realistic, not model types in my opinion mentioned in other reviews. I found it worth the wait to see if their love survives or dies.

With virtually no on-screen dialogue, Konstantinos Menelaou has constructed quite an image-driven look at the relationship between two gay men - Hermes Pittakos and Sanuye Shoteka - their characters have no names - as they spend a summer by the sea evaluating the state (or not) of their long term relationship. With the help of narrator Thanos Lekkas (who increasingly sounded a little like Tom Hardy to me) we are given what at times I feared was bordering on a suicide-letter assessment of the relationship - from just one perspective - as the two men play, cavort, have sex before gradually drifting apart before... Is the relationship doomed or is this rather wordy introspection a route to self-awareness and the salvation of the relationship? Thing is with this, it's just far too long and meandering. At times the script is poignant - we have all felt the intensity of love, sex, disappointment and hope - but this story doesn't really focus on manifesting these emotions on screen sufficiently. Far too many scenes of beaches and seascapes and sunsets... That they speak only once does actually work, but I could have done with maybe half an hour less of the navel gazing and a little more passion, emotion and conviction from writing. To be fair to the two men, though - they are almost like dancers, especially in the water - and they emanate a sense that they could truly be a couple in or out of love. The score is a bit soporific which doesn't exactly help, but it's worth a watch just to see a gay film that does try to think things through...