Film Reviews by CW

I found this a moving film. The growing realisation of the boy that his well-being is in the acceptance of the hairdressers love, not with criminal teenagers, gives the film its core unity, and we are shown clearly the kinds of issues a child abandoned by his guardian (the father)

has to face. The neighbourhood where most of the action takes place becomes familiar so giving a richer sense of the significance of events. As for the boy playing the main role, I found his performance very convincing, so I didn't consider him to be a weak link at all. Yet another interesting Belgian film on childhood I have enjoyed: the other was Ma Vie en Rose, about a transexual boy growing up in France.

This was an intense and at times very moving study of the issues - sometimes an almost unbearable intensity in an honest and very thoughtful approach. I would recommend this film. Clive Williams

Hugo is full of atmosphere with a powerful theme of a boy and a man wrestling with their respective senses of identity which resolve each other in a moving way. A film I return to from time to time.

CW

This is a film I can return to at various times. A very real "feel good" film fully grounded in reality.