You Were My First Boyfriend

You Were My First Boyfriend - HBO

HBO

Documentary

2023

1 HOUR 37 MINS

Documentary

Filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo revisits her 1990s adolescence, a generation after she thought she’d left it all behind.

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Matt Roush

Matt Roush says...

“Why on Earth would I go back?” wonders filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo as she does exactly that in a personal documentary with more than a touch of John Hughes in its DNA. Staging dramatic recreations that she describes as “an emotional exorcism,” Aldarondo uses young actors to play the crushes and tormentors from her high-school years while also tracking down old friends and frenemies from her past. She’s hoping for catharsis in an elaborate experiment in self-acceptance.