Kalik's adaptation of Boris Balter's novel, then a bestseller, is a wistful evocation of lazy teenage summer days cut short by the encroaching military draft. GOODBYE, BOYS was as noted for its sensual undercurrents as it was revered for the lyrical cinematography: in its definitive shot, scattered raindrops hit a beach, wet sand hardening into tiny medallions. Thirty years later, Kalik was to make And The Wind Returns, an intriguing postmodernist pastiche of this film and his own biography that mixes visual self-quotes, bits of the actual GOODBYE, BOYS footage and studio-lot recreations (where he is played by an actor).
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