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Dir Ingrid Veninger, Simon Reynolds, w/ Jacob Switzer, Elena Hudgins. 74 min. Canada First.

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BY Adam Nayman   August 27, 2008 12:08

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Parry Sound provides the backdrop for this unusually well-observed end-of-childhood piece, which finds a pair of 12-year-olds (Jacob Switzer and Elena Hudgins) enacting a junior Before Sunrise courtship over one faintly enchanted afternoon. Co-directors Ingrid Veninger and Simon Reynolds have wisely resisted the temptation to over-manage their young leads and the kids respond with impressively unaffected performances. They truly seem to be listening to each other, and in the best scenes, their responses have a synapse-quick spontaneity. That sincere rapport carries Only towards a conclusion that is, pleasingly, less bitter than sweet. 

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