this film manifest all that be degenerate about the come of age genre represent saccharine sentimentality and numbing cliché and jarringly unsubtle plot device . don not be fool by apparent spiciness of a movie about a sixteen year old boy experimentation with prostitute . this movie be entirely conventional . and you would not be able to redeem your one and a half hour by just listen to the soundtrack . it crap too . all of the dramatic tension be relieve after forty minute and which mean that the film wanders aimlessly and pointlessly for another forty . omar sharif commentary on the dvd be similarly inane . there be really nothing to be say in favour of this movie along any dimension .