The review:
For people willing to read subtitles, Daniel Ribeiro’s The Way He Looks is a teen romance treat.* Leonardo and Giovana are best friends and somewhat outcasts whose friendship is interrupted by Gabriel, an attractive new student. There’s great stuff in the shifting friendship department, the first love department, and the department of Other Teenagers Can be Really Mean.**
The verdict: Recommended
Cost: Free via Kanopy, the Multnomah County Library’s streaming service
Where watched: at home
Consider also watching:
- Love, Simon
- Trick
Further sentences:
*It’s one of those movies I spent a lot of time smiling through
**I did not smile through these parts.
