Come As You Are
Starring: Tom Audenaert, Gilles De Schrijver, Johan Heldenbergh
Director: Geoffrey Enthoven
Rating: 4/5
Come As You Are is a movie that has been lighting up the festival circuit over the last couple of years, finally we are getting the chance to see it on the big screen.
Come As You Are is one of the most charming and heartfelt movies of the year and is really not to be missed.
Three guys in their twenties love wine and women but they are still virgins.
Under the guise of a wine tour they embark on a journey to Spain hoping to have their first sexual experience.
Jozef is blind, Philip is paralysed from the neck down and Lars is in a wheelchair with a brain tumour, but they're not going to let anything stand in their way...
Come As You Are [Hasta la Vista] is a story about love, unconditional friendship and a road movie in which the journey is more important than the destination.
Movies that are about disability quite often don't work because the characters are depicted as people who cannot live their lives without the help of others.
Director Geoffrey Enthoven treats the three central characters as people who are independent and are keen to get out into the world and experience life.
Lars, Philip and Jozef are complete and well rounded characters; I have to say that it is a breathe of fresh air.
They are a trio of fun of the mill lads who are just as full of bravado and lust as any others.
Come As You Are may be a movie that follows these three chaps as they try to love their virginity but it more a film about the bonds of friendship.
It is a moving, charming and laugh out loud funny movie; yet Enthoven never wallows in sentimentality.
From start to finish you are truly rooting for Lars, Philip and Jozef and the three of them take us on a terrific ride.
Come As You Are is out now.