And Your Bird Can Sing

It feels like the summer will never end, the narrator says in the very first scene, and can’t the same really be said of your whole childhood? The two boys and the girl in the languid love triangle at the centre of the film are just young enough to still believe that the flittering, free existence they lead might last forever. But in the words of The Beatles: “You tell me that you’ve got everything you want / and your bird can sing / But you don’t get me.”