A coming of age comedy/drama set in a small town in vast empty Patagonia. Three teenagers with raging hormones and time on their hands find ways to amuse themselves. Getting high, getting off with each other and getting caught! Read more
| Starring | Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Ines Efron, Nahuel Viale, Veronica Llinas |
|---|---|
| Director | Alex dos Santos |
| Genres | Drama, Gay/Lesbian, World Cinema |
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A coming of age comedy/drama set in a small town in vast empty Patagonia. Three teenagers with raging hormones and time on their hands find ways to amuse themselves. Getting high, getting off with each other and getting caught!
| Starring | Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Ines Efron, Nahuel Viale, Veronica Llinas, Hector Diaz, Florencia Braier |
|---|---|
| Director | Alex dos Santos |
| Studio | PIAS UK |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 43 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, Gay/Lesbian, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Spanish |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 04 Feb 2008 Production year: 2006 |
| Format | DVD |
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DON,T rent-its boring indulgent rubbish and a complete waste of time.
This is probably to worst film of the 65,000 on offer.
It's like a video diary shot by a hormonal 14 year-old who was jerking off so much that the camera kept shaking. It was obviously shot with a hand-held video camera without a zoom - when they wanted a close up, the cameraman actually ran towards the actors. By the time he got to where he wanted to be, the actors had finished the action he wanted a close up of in the first place. The number of times that the screen went black - usually just as the action go remotely interesting - really was annoying. I reasoned that it must be the cameraman changing batteries or having a crank if he had one of the new wind-up ones!
There was no storyline that I could detect - just a 'day in the life of' - but even then it was difficult to figure out whose life we were looking at. Was it the 16 year-old shown on the cover - struggling to get his end away before he died a wrinkly old virgin; was it his best mate - struggling to get in before him with the only willing girl in town; was it his mother - struggling to decide whether to take back her adulterous husband or not; or was it perhaps the man himself - who deserved a medal for putting up with the wierdest family in town.
I have to confess I wound the DVD player up to triple speed to get it over with as soon as possible. This didn't spoil my enjoyment in any - not that I was enjoying it - because the dialogue was so sparse that I could keep up with what little was going on by reading the subtitles that flashed up only occasionally - even at triple speed.
Just as I was praying to be put out of my misery, it finished as quickly as it had started - without having reached any conclusion or climax at all - right in the middle of a scene.
Perhaps the cameraman had finally exhausted his supply of batteries...