Nico and Dani ("Krampack") (2001)

A real sweet-natured and likeable film about two young boys in Spain whose friendship starts to look doomed when one of them slowly realizes he's gay. Low-key in the extreme, and it starts to wander in the last half-hour, but it also admirably refuses to give in to predictability -- the send-off is nicely ambiguous. All the performances are wonderfully naturalistic, too. Not exactly earth-shaking or anything, but it's better than your average Queer Cinema flick. (By the way, the film tells you what exactly a "krampack" is. But I rather doubt most of you would like to know.)

Grade: B