One of the best ever coming of age films Smart funny & not afraid of a little politics
Flirting is one of the greatest coming of age stories put to film. When it came out in 1991 I must have seen it at least five or six times in the theater.<br /><br />It was directed by John Duigan as the second installment of an autobiographical tale that started with The Year My Voice Broke featuring Noah Taylor as the lead Danny Embling. The first movie was about Embling growing up in the Australian outback and falling in love. Flirting had him going to St Albans boarding school where he found his soul mate Thandie Newton in her first role as Thandiwe Adjewa a Urgandan exchange student who goes to Cirencester Ladies’ College across the way from St Albans.<br /><br />The movie is full of dry humor, one liners, pseudo intellectualism, and a real sense of growing up as a teenager when your hormones are popping and all you can think about is the opposite sex. Embling and his best friend Les Hill as Greg Gilmore are total outcasts, trying to maneuver through the “herd mentality” of their classmates. They fancy themselves as thinking men to set themselves apart. During a rugby match Embling says he views it through an anthropological lens believing it to be a mating ritual where the men display themselves on the field to attract the attention of the opposite sex. This is also where he first catches the eye of Adjewa. They two prove to be of like minds during a debate over whether the intellect is more important than the physical. There Adjewa gives a speech about how the song Tutti Frutti shows the base nature of human beings. Later, Embling gets pummeled in a boxing match only to see French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre right before he’s knocked out.<br /><br />The film isn’t afraid to deal with race and politics either. Adjewa is the only black person at her school and gets plenty of racist comments. When Embling thinks of her he realizes he knows little about Africa other than what he saw in comics and the movies like Tarzan. While that plays out on the screen all he can think about is the beautiful names of the rivers and cities. It turns out Adjewa’s dad is an African nationalist who lost his first wife during the Mau Mau revolt in Kenya.<br /><br />Flirting also features Nicole Kidman an upperclassman at Cirencester who has a tough exterior but turns out to have a warm heart.<br /><br />Really, this is as close to perfection as you can find. There’s a real innocence to the love affair between Embling and Adjewa, and the ending is so bitter sweet.<br />C
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : Two star-crossed misfits risk everything to be together in this sexy and amusing coming-of-age film. Starring Noah Taylor (Vanilla Sky), Thandie Newton (Mission: Impossible 2), and Academy Award® nominee* Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge), Flirting is a "brilliant"(The Washington Post) story about first love that's "miles ahead of the average teenage film" (Variety)! With his slight stature, obstinate stutter and love for existentialism, Danny (Taylor) doesn't quite fit in at his rugby-dominated boys' school. But then he falls for radiant, intellectual Thandiwe (Newton)an African student ostracized by the icy clique leader (Kidman) of a nearby girls' school. Despite meddling classmates, imperious teachers and a lake separating their schools, Danny and Thandiwe's romance blossoms...until a crisis threatens to take Thandiwe away forever. *2001: Actress, Moulin Rouge.