Film Review – You Were My First Boyfriend

I’m sure for most people, the opportunity to revisit their high school years is not something they’d willingly submit to. For some, there’s too much pain associated with those brutal years, while others endured genuine suffering during this time of adolescence. For documentarian Cecilia Aldarondo, time has come to understand what exactly happened to her during this period in her life, and she’s bringing all of us along for the journey. “You Were My First Boyfriend” is something of a documentary, but more of a visual essay/podcast, with Aldarondo returning to the scene of the crime, going back to her teen years in Winter Park, Florida, where she experienced the pain of bullying and participated in the cruelty of denial, which has caused blockage during her adulthood, electing to reopen old wounds to figure out what went wrong. “You Were My First Boyfriend” is teeming with universal feelings capable of reaching any viewer, and it hits some powerful points of behavior when Aldarondo chooses to settle down and actually make the movie people are likely to be most interested in. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com