Of an Age (2022)

Oh baby. My first movie of 2023 and it's going to be one of my favorites of the year. Of an Age is a deeply romantic film from Macedonian-Australian director Goran Stolevski, the same guy who made 2022's horror film You Won't Be Alone. 

Of an Age gets at something that resonated super deeply with me. It's about a young man, about to turn 19, who hasn't come out yet but spends the day with the older brother of a friend and begins to fall in love. (I turned 19 in 2000 too – same age as Kol in the movie, although Stolevski is a few years younger.) The first half of the movie spends most of its time studying how the two men look at one another and make sense of one another. It's such a gorgeous, romantic movie, and it seemed to know me very well. The two actors in it, Elias Anton and Thom Green, are wonderful, and I found the whole thing deeply moving.