THE WAY HE LOOKS

"The Way He Looks" is a charming coming-of-age teenage romance from Brazil but one with a difference since this isn't a case of boy meets girl, (if it had I'm sure it would have been unendurably mawkish), but of boy meets boy, given an added edge by making one of the protagonists blind, (it's an issue and it isn't; isn't in the sense that it's treated with humour rather than sentimentality

The blind boy is Leonardo, (an excellent Ghilherme Lobo), sleepwalking away his days with his best female friend Giovana, (Tess Amorim). All this changes when new boy Gabriel, (Fabio Audi), arrives and becomes the object of everyone's affections. There are the usual ups and downs and misunderstandings before ... well, let's just say it's great to see a gay movie that is sweet without being saccharine and one with a high feel-good factor. Well worth seeing.