Tag: coming of age
A Little Lust
The first time we catch sight of 16 year old Rocco (Andrea Amato), he is trying to lose his virginity with his best friend Maria (Carolina Pavone). Unfortunately he quickly loses his erection and starts to vex if it’s because Maria is like a sister to him, or the fact that he thinks his penis is…
Bromance
For his debut feature film Argentinian filmmaker Lucas Santa Ana’s story is about three teenage male best friends who in 1996 go on a beach camping vacation together which ends up changing their relationships with each other for good. Dani (Javier De Pietro) is the videographer of the group filming all their activities including when they…
Esteros
Two childhood best friends Mati (Joaquin Parada) and Jero (Blas Fenardi Niz) seem to have an ideal life spending their summers on Jero’s parents farm in the wetlands in southern Argentina. They get to do all the usual boyish country things and everything is quite perfect until their burgeoning sexuality hits in and their relationship…
Teenage Kicks
Don’t be fooled by the deceptive title of this movie which implies it is just another teenage romp, as Craig Boreham’s feature film debut, is one of the most powerful edgy LGBT dramas to come out of Australia for some years. It’s hard not to compare it with Ana Kokkinos’s 1998 award-winning break-out hit ‘Head…
One Kiss
Clutching a newly won Italian Golden Globe comes an insightful teen drama that adroitly tackles a whole slew of issues such as homophobia, bullying and date-rape sex. Despite the serious nature of it’s subject matter, the movie opens on a very sunny note infusing such warmth and humor throughout that doesn’t prepare one at all…
