Director's statement from Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre publicity materials:

Do you remember the one about the writer who dreamed wonderful stories, but never remembered them when he woke up? No? Well, once there was a writer who dreamed wonderful stories but never remembered them when he awoke. A friend suggested that he leave a pad and paper by his nightstand, and set his alarm clock to wake him in the middle of the night so he would wake up and write down his story. And so he did it. He dreamed a marvelous story, the alarm clock rang, and he saw the pad and wrote down the story immediately. He went back to sleep, happy. In the morning while brushing his teeth, the writer remembered that he had written down the marvelous story. He ran over to the pad and read: "boy falls in love with girl."

Boy falls in love with girl is the beginning of Two Summers. You may already know a story quite like this.

It's a comedy, a genre disregarded by the critics, ignored by film festivals, but, happily, beloved by audiences. Or at least beloved by me. I have always liked comedies which, according to Aristotle's definition, reveal the worst about human beings, like a deformed mirror, the kind they have in amusement parks, where people look like a wine jug or a Modigliani portrait. It's a comedy with young actors that hang out at the beach; it's full of music, a few jokes, kissing scenes, some adventures, and a boy who falls in love with a girl. What's the novelty? Well, the novelty is the boy, the girl, the beach, the music, the adventure, a few jokes and kissing scenes. The rest is all the same.

From a review by Deborah Young, Variety, October 3, 2002:

Experienced short filmmaker Jorge Furtado (who won a Berlin Silver Bear for Iha des Flores) finds just the right light, ironic touch for his first feature, Two Summers, a bittersweet tale of sexual initiation set against a background of adolescent uncertainty. First love and disillusionment are seen without condescension or bravado, allowing the young hero to make a mature choice down the line. Hip, fast-paced teen picture heralds a director to watch and could even furnish remake material.

The parents of Chico (Andre Arteche) always take their vacation off-season, landing him on a big deserted beach in March. His attempts to lose his virginity are thwarted until Roza (Ana Maria Mainieri) jumps into his life, seducing him and then vanishing. That fall, she pops up to tell him she's pregnant and ask for money for an abortion, but it's only a con game she's played with 22 other innocents. Despite his anger and his pals' ribbing, Chico discovers he's still madly in love.