Has a wonderful first hour that is both nostalgic and poignant, a tale at once both melancholic and joyful full of the exhuberence of youth, the overwhelming impact of first love and the disappointment that is the ever present knowledge that it won't last. The final half hour was more a case of sporadically great let down by a couple clunky ideas (the writer imagining his students asking him questions, the poor usage of black and white) and one scene that belies belief.