Young Hearts

Sweet and earnest, this is the kind of film that’s easy to wrap your arms around because it understands that coming of age is inherently traumatic.

“Young Hearts” is a more wholesome, and ultimately more cliché, endeavor.

The film truthfully hints at the sharp whirs behind the smooth façade of everyday life.

... A film whose queer positivity should be a balm to LGBTQ kids wrestling with their sexuality as well as to parents struggling with acceptance.

This movie is less about painful heartbreak and more about the delicate and beautiful transformation of coming to love yourself—and others—for who they truly are.


{The] emotional authenticity that will resonate with viewers young and old.

A tender, heartwarming and refreshing coming-of-age story with shades of Eric Rohmer.

Belgian helmer Anthony Schatteman perfectly captures the excitement, confusion and desire felt by post-adolescents struggling to come to terms with their sexual orientation in a world that still sees same-sex love as alien and taboo in Young Hearts.

It’s the kind of film that would have transformed my life way back when, much like Heartstopper is now.

Stupendously well-told. [Full review in Spanish]