Krampack Details

Older film-makers often mistakenly assume that teenagers are invariably desperate and obsessive about that all-important “first experience”. Something much closer to the truth is suggested in this Spanish coming-of-age movie, in which everything may be casual but while experiments and mistakes are made, ultimately nothing really matters. Two 16-year-old boys, Fernando Ramallo and Jordi Vilches, spend the summer in Ramallo's parents' house by the seaside, but by the end of the holiday, their sexualities have been both awakened and determined. Jordi Sánchez's play has been intelligently opened out by director Cesc Gay, who takes advantage of idyllic summer locations. The entire cast is good, but the boys, in particular, are outstanding. Rarely has a foreign language film been so accessible to British adolescents.