Close
Two 13-year-old boys spend an idyllic summer together, but their connection is put to the test when they become the subject of speculation at school.
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7.8/10
1,087 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $3.1M
- Language
- French
- friendship
- suicide
- forgiveness
- male friendship
- bullying
- coming of age
- grief
- best friend
- teenage boy
- bike
- guilt
- childhood
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Music
Produced in
Belgium, France, Netherlands
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IndiaIN
- PremiereInternational Film Festival of India21 Nov 2022
- PremiereInternational Film Festival of Kerala10 Dec 2022
United StatesUS
- PremiereTelluride Film Festival2 Sept 2022
- PremiereAspen Film Festival2 Oct 2022
- PremiereBendFilm Festival6 Oct 2022
- PremiereOrcas Island Film Festival7 Oct 2022
- PremiereHamptons International Film Festival8 Oct 2022
- PremiereNew Hampshire Film Festival9 Oct 2022
- PremiereHeartland International Film Festival11 Oct 2022
- PremiereMill Valley Film Festival14 Oct 2022
- PremiereChicago International Film Festival15 Oct 2022
- PremiereMiddleburg Film Festival16 Oct 2022
- PremiereLoft Film Fest17 Oct 2022
- PremiereNew York LGBTQ+ Film Festival18 Oct 2022
- PremiereFilm Fest 91921 Oct 2022
- PremiereSan Diego International Film Festival22 Oct 2022
- PremierePhiladelphia International Film Festival23 Oct 2022
- PremiereSanta Fe International Film Festival24 Oct 2022
- PremiereSCAD Savannah Film Festival25 Oct 2022
- PremiereTwin Cities Film Fest26 Oct 2022
- PremiereMontclair Film Festival29 Oct 2022
- PremiereAFI Fest5 Nov 2022
- PremiereMiami Film Festival GEMS6 Nov 2022
- PremiereVirginia Film Festival7 Nov 2022
- PremiereNew Orleans Film Festival8 Nov 2022
- PremiereHawai'i International Film Festival11 Nov 2022
- PremiereDenver International Film Festival12 Nov 2022
- PremiereHouston Cinema Arts Festival13 Nov 2022
- PremiereThree Rivers Film Festival14 Nov 2022
- PremiereKey West Film Festival17 Nov 2022
- PremierePortland Queer Film Festival18 Nov 2022
- PremiereMoMA - The Contenders27 Nov 2022
- Theatrical (limited)New York City, New York2 Dec 2022
- Theatrical (limited)Los Angeles, California9 Dec 2022
- PremierePalm Springs International Film Festival8 Jan 2023
- PremiereOUTshine LGBTQ+ Film Festival20 Jan 2023
- TheatricalPG-1327 Jan 2023
- Digital / OTTPG-13A24 Screening Room28 Feb 2023
- Digital / OTTPG-133 Mar 2023
United KingdomGB
- PremiereBFI London Film Festival8 Oct 2022
- PremiereCambridge Film Festival23 Oct 2022
- PremiereFrench Film Festival UK5 Nov 2022
- PremiereLeeds International Film Festival6 Nov 2022
- PremiereBrighton Film Festival11 Nov 2022
- PremiereLondon Film Week9 Dec 2022
- Theatrical (limited)12A3 Mar 2023
- Digital / OTT12MUBI21 Apr 2023
AustraliaAU
- PremiereSydney Film Festival18 Jun 2022
- PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival10 Aug 2022
- PremiereAdelaide Film Festival21 Oct 2022
- PremiereBrisbane Film Festival29 Oct 2022
- TheatricalM16 Feb 2023
CanadaCA
- PremiereCinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival17 Sept 2022
- PremiereFIN Atlantic International Film Festival18 Sept 2022
- PremiereCalgary Film Festival27 Sept 2022
- PremiereVancouver International Film Festival2 Oct 2022
- PremiereForest City Film Festival21 Oct 2022
- PremiereWindsor International Film Festival28 Oct 2022
- PremiereCINEMANIA Film Festival12 Nov 2022
- PremiereFestival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie17 Nov 2022
- Theatrical3 Feb 2023
ArgentinaAR
- PremiereCannes Film Festival Week30 Nov 2022
AustriaAT
- PremiereVienna International Film Festival26 Oct 2022
BelgiumBE
- Premiere12Ghent Film Festival11 Oct 2022
- Theatrical122 Nov 2022
- Premiere12Filmfestival Oostende1 Feb 2023
Bosnia & HerzegovinaBA
- PremiereSarajevo Film Festival18 Aug 2022
BrazilBR
- PremiereRio de Janeiro International Film Festival10 Oct 2022
- PremiereFestival MixBrasil de Cultura da Diversidade14 Nov 2022
- Theatrical122 Mar 2023
- Digital / OTTMUBI21 Apr 2023
ChinaCN
- PremiereBeijing International Film Festival 22 Apr 2023
- PremiereShanghai International Film Festival11 Jun 2023
- Digital / OTT8 Aug 2023
ColombiaCO
- PremiereBogotá International Film Festival7 Oct 2022
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Close was released on 1 November 2022.
Audience reviews
4- C7/10
CinemaSerf
10/21/2022
Thirteen year old "Léo" (Eden Dambrine) and his schoolfriend "Rémi" (Gustav De Waele) are inseparable. The play together, eat together, sleep together - an ideal fraternal relationship. At school, though, their classmates start to make disparaging remarks about them, and the naturally more gregarious "Léo" begins to shun his friend a little, then a little more... Tragedy ensues after "Rémi" doesn't show up for a scho…
- P10/10
PlutoZoo
8/13/2023
I don't rate a film 10/10 unless it's wonderful and my reviews tend to be motivated by either abject disappointment or outright admiration. I think that's very much most people's experience of film, you either love it or you don't. With Close, there's everything to love and it is an exercise in pure love, not just in its storyline but also the art of film, acting and storytelling. Importantly. It is akin to a diss…
- B9/10
badelf
7/14/2026
Summary: 9/10: A tender, devastating examination of how homophobia and toxic masculinity destroy male intimacy, anchored by extraordinary performances from Eden Dambrine and Gustav De Waele that make the film's tragedy feel both intimate and unbearably universal. There's a moment early in Lukas Dhont's Close when thirteen-year-old Léo and Rémi race their bicycles through fields of flowers in the Belgian countrys…
- K5/10
kinrich30
8/30/2026
While marketed towards a gay audience, is not really a gay story. Spoilers: it's about two young teens that were best friends their whole life, but when they got to middle school other kids thought they were a couple and started teasing them. The more sensitive boy ingored it, but the other boy was greatly bothered by it and dropped his friend to create a new image for himself. The more sensitive boy ended his life a…
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