CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

BILLYBOY-10 A story about a breakup, heartache, confusion, pain, remorse, love, and all the emotions in-between. Very intelligent script, very good acting, directing and production values. Worth my time after watching the same old high school afraid to come out blah blah blah.

larapha I could hardly say I liked In Bloom. At first for its title: nothing is booming there. On the contrary, the main couple is in crisis. Another film showing gay lifestyle as aimless and linked with drugs. And more concerning: nobody does care that one of the main characters lives of this 'profession' as he goes getting High from one setting to another. The other person for the couple also lives a meaningless live, just working to pay the bills, as it seems. Nothing remotely romantic in the air. To complicate the things, there is a serial murder that is attacking young man, in a subplot never developed. The main characters also didn't convince me. They deliver their lines, for the most part of the flick. I couldn't see passion in their eyes, much less live. Ass a role, I found it a film hard to watch: no bloom, no love, no life.

l_rawjalaurence Filmed in and around Chicago. C. M. Birkmeier's no-budget film centers on a turbulent relationship between Kurt (Kyle Wigent), and Paul (Tanner Rittenhouse). They begin the film with their affair completely "in bloom," as the title suggests; but then Kurt declares openly to Paul that he is no longer in love. Whether that is actually true or not is a moot point; by the film's end, when Kurt is the unwitting witness to an horrific murder, he actually discovers the true meaning of fidelity and loyalty.The plot is a familiar one, but director Birkmeier reinvigorates it through a suggestive cinematic style. His stock-in-trade is the flat two-shot framing Kurt and Paul as they eat Chinese food, play video games, or sit in bed. This might suggest closeness, but can also denote imprisonment; hence Kurt's desire to escape the relationship. Yet Birkmeier also uses the aerial shot looking down on the two lovers as they lie in bed together. They seem quite far distant from the camera - a fitting metaphor, perhaps, for the state of their affair. On another occasion he films them making love to one another; they are actually lying horizontally in bed, but Birkmeier shoots them from the side and then turns the image through forty-five degrees, making it seem as if they are standing up, having a "quickie" before moving on.On other occasions Birkmeier uses locations to suggest the sterility of the protagonists' existence. Paul spends his days in a grocery- store filling shelves and exchanging desultory conversation with co- worker Eddie (Jake Andrews). Meanwhile Kurt visits several groups of youngsters to sell them weed; while making a lot of ready money from the deals, he does not seem to enjoy it very much. Or maybe he is just frightened of engagement with anyone, whether boyfriends or others.Critics might accuse IN BLOOM of giving a stereotyped portrait of a gay community as promiscuous, drug-addicted and hedonistic. This is perhaps a little too censorious: Birkmeier seems more interested in the emptiness of his characters' existences as they move aimlessly from party to party without any real aim in life. This is the main reason for Paul and Kurt's break-up; while they claim to have each other, they both realize that the relationship will not get anywhere.

Garrett Hernandez Is it impossible for the gay community to make a gay movie that doesn't portray gay people as promiscuous, uneducated, drug-addicted, alcoholics who cannot have a successful relationship? Apparently not. This is just another example of gay people actually advancing negative stereotypes by actually portraying all the gay people in their movie as that stereotype. Gay people are successful lawyers, doctors, and parents. Is that too boring for your movie or doesn't it portray enough of a struggle? The only things the characters in this movie think about are getting drunk, getting high or cheating. Is this supposed to make non-gay people more sympathetic to those different then them, or to re-enforce their already bigoted views? It's embarrassing that you don't even stand up for yourself.