After reading the other reviews, I was prepared for a heart-warming, coming of age movie. What I got was dark, slow, hard to follow and boring. The movie I bought from Amazon was a prior rental in the U.S., so maybe something was cut out of it that made it such a classic, but from what I saw it was just 90 minutes worth of "stuff". There was no real "coming of age" event in the whole movie. He did wrestle with a girl about his own age for a minute or so, but no emotions, or "sexual awakening" was ever revealed.